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Law and Moral Regulation in Modern Egypt: Ḥisba from Tradition to Modernity / Ezzat, Ahmed

Ezzat, Ahmed	Journal Article
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This article examines the historical roots of juridical moral regulation in modern Egypt, assessing the relationship between modern law and shariʿa through the lens of the influence of the Islamic practice of ḥisba on courts and legislators. The article engages critically with scholarship on Islamic law and postcolonial theory regarding the impact of Western colonialism on law in Muslim societies and problematizes the understanding that shariʿa was secularized in the Egyptian legal culture through the translation of Western legal concepts. Instead, a different narrative is offered, one that recognizes the agency of local actors in the process of secularization and considers the influence of shariʿa in the legal development of contemporary Egypt.

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Colonialism ; Islamic Law ; Hisba ; Shariʿa ; Egyptian Law

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Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Taliban of Afghanistan: ‘puritanical reform’ as a ‘revolutionary war’ program / Mahendrarajah , Shivan

Mahendrarajah , Shivan	Article
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This article argues that the Taliban's revolutionary war (RW) program is puritanical reform informed by the Islamic legal duty of al-amr bi'l-ma‘ruf wa'l-nahy ‘an al-munkar(‘commanding what is good and forbidding what is reprehensible’). It also examines the history of this duty with examples of puritanical reform movements emerging from Berber tribes in North Africa and tribes in Arabia. Furthermore, the importance of this duty in Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, and its exportation to Pakistan where Taliban leaders imbibed this ideology, are discussed. Finally the article shows that corruption and abuses by the Afghan regime have given impetus to puritanical reformers: the condition precedent for puritanical reform is pervasive wrongdoing in an Islamic society.

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Taliban ; Saudi Arabia ; Jihad ; Revolutionary war ; Wahhabi ; Deobandi ;
Hisba ; Puritanical Reform ; Pakistan - 1967-1977

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