Casting Off Egyptian Ḥanafism: Sharīʿa, Divorce, and Legal Reform in 20th-Century Egypt
This article explores an important debate on divorce law in early 20th-century Egypt between the sharīʿa judge Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir (d. 1958) and the adjunct to the last Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire, Muḥammad Zāhid al-Kawtharī (d. 1952). The debate is centred on Shākir’s argument that trip...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2020, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 349-383 |
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Aḥmad Shākir
B Egypt B Muḥammad al-Kawtharī B Divorce law B Ḥanafī school |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |