TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khaled Fahmy
TI  - In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt
SN  - 9780520279032
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oakland
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Medical jurisprudence
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Evidence, Expert
KW  - Forensic chemistry
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Medical jurisprudence (Islamic law)
KW  - Evidence, Expert (Islamic law)
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of (Islamic law)
KW  - Islam and justice
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Medicine, enlightenment, and Islam -- Siyāsa, the forgotten code -- Olfactory tale of one city : Cairo in Khedival times -- Law in the market : Ḥisba and forensic chemistry -- Justice without pain
N2  - "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"--Provided by publisher
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