By Mariam Sheibani Source: Al-Qarāfī, Shihāb al-Dīn. Kitāb al-furūq aw Anwār al-burūq fī anwāʾ al-furūq. 3rd ed. Edited by Muḥammad Sarrāj and ʿAlī Jumuʿa. 2 vols. Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 2010. General … Continue reading Al-Qarāfī on the Importance of Legal Maxims and Distinctions in Jurisprudence
Earlier this month, the Egyptian online newspaper Mada Masr published a detailed and richly illustrated interview with Khaled Fahmy (University of Cambridge) discussing his recent book, In Quest of Justice: … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: History of Medicine and Islamic Law
In his 2017 book, Will Hanley discusses the displacement of qāḍī courts with consular tribunals, and questions of religious authority as they competed with new ideas of nationality at … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Religious Authority and Nationality Laws in Alexandria
Last month, Equal Times (a Brussels-based news site) published an article discussing the increase in paternity lawsuits and calls for DNA testing in Egypt. The Egyptian government estimates there are … Continue reading In the News: Paternity Lawsuits and DNA Testing in Egypt
By Mariam Sheibani Source: Al-ʿAlāʾī, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl. Al-Majmūʿ al-mudhhab fī qawāʿid al-madhhab. Edited by Majīd ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī and Aḥmad Khudayrʿ Abbās. 2 vols. Amman: Dār ʿImār, 1425/2004. General Description: … Continue reading The Golden Collection of the Law’s Maxims
This forthcoming article by SHARIAsource Senior Scholar Mohammad Fadel is due to be published in an upcoming special issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. It describes how the … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Fadel and Johnson on Constitutionalism
By Professor Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law) In a recent attempt to control religious discourse in Egypt, the chairperson of Egypt’s Supreme Media Regulatory Council (al-majlis al-aʿlā … Continue reading Commentary: Religious Opinions within Civil Discourse
By Nadia Sayed and Helena Swanson-Nystrom Citation: Nadia Sayed & Helena Swanson-Nystrom, Review of Intisar A. Rabb, The Least Religious Branch? The New Islamic Constitutionalism after the Arab Spring [17 … Continue reading Scholarship in “Plain English”: Intisar Rabb on Islamic Constitutionalism after the Arab Spring
By Helena Swanson-Nystrom Summary Egypt’s 2012 Constitution included the principles of Islamic law as the “principal source” of national legislation. This clause had been in the country’s constitution since 1980, … Continue reading Review :: Gianluca Parolin on Al-Azhar and Egypt’s 2012 Constitution
By Jiou Park Background summary: Legal history survey Demographics: Egypt has a total population of 86,895,099 as of July 2014, and is the 16th most populous country in the world. … Continue reading Country Profile: Egypt
