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The volume extends the mainly European focus of the series 'Historiography and ldentity' to probe into a more global perspective, exploring the historiographical cultures of a number of Eurasian macro-regions: China, Japan, Iran, South Arabia, Syria, Byzantium, Lotharingia, and Spain. The broader, Eurasian perspective can contribute to a deeper understanding of the very different ways in which works of historiography could communicate, promote, and negotiate 'visions of community' and concepts of belonging. Der Band erweitert den Schwerpunkt der Reihe 'Historiography and ldentity' auf eine globale Perspektive. Im Fokus stehen historiographische Kulturen in verschiedenen Makroregionen Eurasiens: China, Japan', Iran, Südarabien, Syrien, Byzanz, Lotharingien und Spanien. Diese breitere, eurasische Perspektive kann zu einem tieferen Verständnis der sehr unterschiedlichen Wege beitragen, auf denen in historiographischen Werken„Visionen von Gemeinschaft" und Konzepte von Zugehörigkeit kommuniziert, verbreitet und verhandelt wurden.

Medieval history --- Asian history --- European history --- Historiography, ldentity, Middle Ages, Byzantium, Islam, Iran, South Arabia, China, Frankish kingdoms, lberia --- ÖFOS 2012, Church history --- ÖFOS 2012, Source studies --- ÖFOS 2012, Sinology --- ÖFOS 2012, Oriental studies --- Historiographie, Identität, Mittelalter, Byzanz, Islam, Iran, Südarabien, China, Frankenreich, Iberien --- ÖFOS 2012, Kirchengeschichte --- ÖFOS 2012, Quellenkunde --- ÖFOS 2012, Sinologie --- ÖFOS 2012, Orientalistik

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By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state law.Rachel M. Scott analyzes the complex effects of constitutional commitments to the sharia in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. She argues that the sharia is not dismantled by the modern state when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, but rather recast in its service. In showing the particular forms that the sharia takes when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, Scott pushes back against assumptions that introductions of the sharia into modern state law result in either the revival of medieval Islam or in its complete transformation. Scott engages with premodern law and with the Ottoman legal legacy on topics concerning Egypt's Coptic community, women's rights, personal status law, and the relationship between religious scholars and the Supreme Constitutional Court. Recasting Islamic Law considers modern Islamic state law's discontinuities and its continuities with premodern sharia.

RELIGION / Islam / Law. --- Religious Studies. --- Middle East Studies. --- Legal History & Studies. --- Middle East studies --- Middle Eastern studies --- Near East studies --- Oriental studies --- Constitutional law (Islamic law) --- Islamic law --- Law --- Islam and state --- Constitutional law --- Islamic influences. --- Egyptian revolution of 2011, religion and state in Egypt, Sharia, Islamic Law, religion and politics,. --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Islamic influences --- Religion --- Study and teaching. --- History