In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt

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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. Front Matter......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 Medicine, Enlightenment, and Islam......Page 54 Siyāsa, the Forgotten Code......Page 96 An Olfactory Tale of One City- CAIRO IN KHEDIVAL TIMES......Page 147 Law in the Market- ḤISBA AND FORENSIC CHEMISTRY......Page 194 Justice without Pain......Page 241 Conclusion......Page 286 NOTES......Page 300 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 362 INDEX......Page 386