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Islamic Legal Revival

Reception of European Law and Transformations in Islamic Legal Thought in Egypt, 1875-1952. Oxford Islamic Legal Studies

By (author) Leonard Wood
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 15th Sep 2016
Dimensions: w 161mm h 235mm d 26mm
Weight: 690g
ISBN-10: 0198786018
ISBN-13: 9780198786016
Barcode No: 9780198786016
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In this meticulously researched volume, Leonard Wood presents his ground breaking history of Islamic revivalist thought in Islamic law. Islamic Legal Revival: Reception of European Law and Transformations in Islamic Legal Thought in Egypt, 1879-1952 brings to life the tumultuous history of colonial interventions in Islamic legal consciousness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the story of the rapid displacement of local Egyptian and Islamic law by transplanted European codes and details the evolution of resultant movements to revive Islamic law. Islamic legal revivalist movements strove to develop a modern version of Islamic law that could be codified and would replace newly imposed European laws. Wood explains in unparalleled depth and with nuance how cutting-edge trends in European legal scholarship inspired influential revivalists and informed their methods in legal thought. Timely and provocative, Islamic Legal Revival tells of the rich achievements of legal experts in Egypt who disrupted tradition in Islamic jurisprudence and created new approaches to Islamic law that were distinctively responsive to demands of the contemporary world. The story told bears important implications for understandings of Egyptian history, Islamic legal history, comparative law, and deeply contested and highly transformative interactions between European and Islamic thought.

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This important book by Leonard Wood surveys and discusses legal institutional developments and scholarship in a crucial period in Egypt's modern history. ... we cannot underestimate the knowledge and expertise, and also the time and energy, required to undertake a study like Wood's. Wood was able to use an extraordinary array of sources, and his discussions of legal institutions, scholarship, pedagogy, and figures that contributed to legal thought in Egypt in the
period under study is both impressive and truly useful. * Amr Osman, Journal of Islamic Ethics *