Islamic Law and Legal Education in Modern Egypt

This dissertation examines the transmission of Islamic legal knowledge in modern Egypt. It is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Cairo among formally trained Islamic scholars. With governmental permission, I was able to attend classes at both al-Azhar’s Faculty of Sharīʿah and Cairo Uni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nakissa, Aria Daniel
Other Authors: Caton, Steven C.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
Subjects:
Law
Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10523
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10382786