Questioning Secularism Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt

Name: Questioning Secularism Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt
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ISBN: 9780226010694

ISBN-10: 0226010694

ISBN-13: 9780226010694

Edition: 2012

Authors: Hussein Ali Agrama

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The central question of the Arab Spring—what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East—has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations’ secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has the West’s long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? InQuestioning Secularism, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning of secularism itself and the ambiguities that lie at its heart. Drawing on a precedent-setting case arising from the family law courts —the last courts in Egypt to use Shari‘a law—Agrama shows that…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: A Secular or a Religious State?



The Legalization of Hisba in the Case of Nasr Abu Zayd



The Indeterminacies of Secular Power: Sovereignty, Public Order, and Family



A Paradox of Islamic Authority in Modern Egypt



Law's Suspicion



What Is a Fatwa?: Authority, Tradition, and the Care of the Self



Islamist Lawyers in the Egyptian Emergency State: A Different Language of Justice?


Epilogue


Notes


Index