In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 1202
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- University of California Press
- ISBN
- 9780520279032
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- In Quest of Justice is based on eight years of research in the Egyptian National Archives. The book relies on an exceptionally large volume of Arabic archival material dating from the nineteenth century. It brings to light an entire archive of a legal system that has rarely been recognized, let alone studied before. Conceptually, the book engages with multiple areas of scholarship: medical history, legal history, history of town planning, postcolonial theory, and post-secular critique. In addition, it engages with popular Islamist writings on the nature of secularism, modern science, and legal reform in the Muslim world.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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