{"product_id":"sharia-and-the-making-of-the-modern-egyptian-islamic-law-and-custom-in-the-courts-of-ottoman-cairo-9789774166174","title":"Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian: Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Reem A. Meshal\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: American University in Cairo Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: American University in Cairo Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this new study, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society, and the early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth century, a new legal and cultural orthodoxy fostered the development of an early-modern Islam that broke new ground, giving rise to a new concept of the citizen and his role. Contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, this work adopts the position that local custom began to diminish and decline as a source of authority.\u003cbr\u003eThese issues resonate today, several centuries later, in the continuing discussions of individual rights in relation to Islamic law.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American University in Cairo Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890702008471,"sku":"9789774166174","price":5576.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789774166174.webp?v=1781180984","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sharia-and-the-making-of-the-modern-egyptian-islamic-law-and-custom-in-the-courts-of-ottoman-cairo-9789774166174","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}