Military law under Mehmed Ali tied crime to punishment more tightly than civilian law
Evidence
In contrast to Qānūn al-Filāḥa the various military codes passed to regulate different aspects of life in the army attempted to draw a closer link between crime and punishment. To ensure blind obedience to its regulations, Mehmed Ali’s army could not rely on the blurred definition of crime or the haphazard application of punishment that characterized a number of laws passed to regulate aspects of civilian life. A number of laws, therefore, were passed each dealing with a specific aspect of military life and each giving detailed definitions of various offenses and the exact corresponding punishments. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 699
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Relates to the reader’s stated goal on the birth of the modern Egyptian army and its disciplinary regime.
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- The Egyptian army replaced spectacular punishment with rehabilitative discipline (similarity 0.80)
- Military punishment reform moved from spectacular severity toward certainty of punishment (similarity 0.79)
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