Agrama, Hussein Ali.

Questioning secularism : Islam, sovereignty, and the rule of law in modern Egypt / Hussein Ali Agrama. - xiii, 281 pages ; 24 cm. - Chicago studies in practices of meaning .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The legalization of hisba in the case of Nasr Abu Zayd -- The indeterminacies of secular power : sovereignty, public order, and family -- A paradox of Islamic authority in modern Egypt -- Law's suspicion -- What is a fatwa? : authority, tradition, and the care of self -- Islamist lawyers in the Egyptian emergency state : a different language of justice?

9780226010687 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226010686 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226010694 (pbk. : alkaline paper) 0226010694 (pbk. : alkaline paper)

2012003654


Abū Zayd, Naṣr Ḥāmid--Trials, litigation, etc.


Rule of law--Egypt.
Islamic law--Egypt.
Islam and state--Egypt.
Fatwas--Egypt.

KRM2020 / .A944 2012

340.590962 / A2771q