Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian: Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo writing life Their passionately intertwined stories become

Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility

ISBN-13: 9780061625992

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Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian: Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo writing life Their passionately intertwined stories becomeIn this book, 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