In Quest of Justice

Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-27903-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fahmy, Khaled

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • Medicine, Enlightenment, and Islam
2 • Siyasa, the Forgotten Code
3 • An Olfactory Tale of One City: Cairo in Khedival Times
4 • Law in the Market: H. isba and Forensic Chemistry
5 • Justice without Pain
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Khaled Fahmy is Sultan Qaboos bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.