Colonial legal reform reduced sharia courts to family and endowment law

Evidence

The distinction Hajja Faiza makes between acts of worship Cibadat) and those actions pertaining to social transactions ( mueamalat) has been part of the Islamic juridical tradition since at least the tenth century. In the modern period, although shari ea proce.. dures ( those moral discourses and legal procedures sometimes glossed as “Is.. lamic law”) were unevenly applied in Egypt, most acts in the category of mu\imalat came to be regulated by civil law, giving the distinction between worship and social transactions a new valence and institutional force. As was the case with most non..Western nations, Egypt adopted a European legal code ( the French code) in the mid.- neteenth century, thereby restricting the application of Islamic law to matters pertaining to family law and pious en.. dowments (Hill 1 987 ). — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 326 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French colonialism reduced Shariʿa law to mere personal status adjudication; The Dutch renamed Indonesian Islamic courts as priest-courts; British codification transformed Shari’a into state-administered Anglo-Muhammadan law (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Egypt’s mid-nineteenth-century adoption of French civil law restricted shari’a to family law #exemplifies (0.95) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 326