Questioning secularism : Islam, sovereignty, and the rule of law in modern Egypt /

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 ine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Agrama, Hussein Ali
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Colección:Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Temas:
Abū Zayd, Naṣr Ḥāmid > Trials, litigation, etc.
Abū Zayd, Naṣr Ḥāmid.
Abū Zayd, Nasr Hāmid > Trials, litigation, etc.
Rule of law > Egypt.
Islamic law > Egypt.
Islam and state > Egypt.
Fatwas > Egypt.
Règle de droit > Égypte.
Droit islamique > Égypte.
Islam et État > Égypte.
RELIGION > Islam > Law.
Fatwas.
Islam and state.
Islamic law.
Rule of law.
Egypt.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 self
  • Islamist lawyers in the Egyptian emergency state: a different language of justice?

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