Egyptian law is compatible with sharia despite European derivation

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

All the scholars argued that Luttwak had a rigid, simplistic view of Islam that failed to take into account its many strains and the subtleties of its religious law, which is separate from the secular laws in almost all Islamic nations. The Islamic press and television have reported extensively on the United States presidential election, they said, and Obama’s Muslim roots and his Christian religion are well known, yet there have been no suggestions in the Islamic world that he is an apostate. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 599 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian law’s success proves its compatibility with sharia; Egyptian legal reform along European lines was a tool for resisting European penetration — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1020; Egyptian independence hinged on proving moral compatibility with western Europe — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 711 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian law’s success proves its compatibility with sharia #corroborates (0.95)
• Egypt’s mid-nineteenth-century adoption of French civil law restricted shari’a to family law #complicates (0.84) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 326
• Islamic religious law is separate from secular law in most Muslim nations #complicates (0.74) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 599