ID - 2656218 TI - Defining islam for the Egyptian state. Muftis and Fatwas of the Dar al-Ifta PY - 1997 VL - 59 SN - 13853376 SN - 9004109471 9004450602 9789004109476 9789004450608 PB - E.J. Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Fatwa's KW - Fatwas KW - Futwas KW - Islam and state KW - Islam and politics KW - Dār al-Iftāʾ al-Miṣrīyah KW - Egypt KW - Politics and government KW - Fatwas. KW - Fatāwá KW - Advisory opinions (Islamic law) KW - Islamic law KW - Law and legislation KW - Sources KW - Dār al-Iftāʼ al-Miṣrīyah. KW - دار الافتاء المصرية KW - Égypte KW - Ägypten KW - Egitto KW - Egipet KW - Egiptos KW - Miṣr KW - Southern Region (United Arab Republic) KW - Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) KW - Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) KW - Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) KW - Egipat KW - Arab Republic of Egypt KW - A.R.E. KW - ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) KW - Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah KW - Mitsrayim KW - Egipt KW - Ijiptʻŭ KW - Misri KW - Ancient Egypt KW - Gouvernement royal égyptien KW - جمهورية مصر العربية KW - مِصر KW - مَصر KW - Maṣr KW - Khēmi KW - エジプト KW - Ejiputo KW - Egypti KW - Egypten KW - מצרים KW - United Arab Republic KW - 1895 KW - -Fatwas KW - Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyah KW - Islam and state - Egypt KW - Islam and politics - Egypt KW - Egypt - Politics and government - 1981 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2656218 AB - This book traces the history of the Dār al-Iftā, the Egyptian State Mufti's administration, from its inception in the 1890s to the present. Often uncomfortably positioned between a state bureaucracy and an emerging Muslim public concerned with the transmission of Islamic values, the various State Muftis have been striving to reinterpret Islamic law and demonstrate its relevance in the modern age. The history of the Dār al-Iftā thus provides a rare insight into major themes of 20th-century Islamic thinking. Four case studies demonstrate how fatwas can be used as sources for legal, social, intellectual and mentality history. Defining Islam for the Egyptian State will be of great interest to students of Islamic law and social and intellectual history of the modern Middle East. ER -