What is it about?
This article is devoted to the study of questions of knowledge, law, and ethics in Islamic context. How did Sharia inform revolutionary protests in Egypt in 2011? What were the main arguments and modes of reasoning relied on by Islamic scholars in the Islamic legal debate about the overthrow of the Egyptian President? How did Islamic ethics inform Islamic legal reasoning? How is this different from Western liberal revolutions?
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Why is it important?
Islamic jurisprudence and fatwa is often misunderstood, and Sharia is usually perceived as opposed to progressive and revolutionary politics. The "Arab Spring" and protests in 2011 were described as liberal revolutions. Yet, revolutionary protests were not only informed by liberal ideas. This article sheds a new light on the role of Sharia in political emancipation in the 2011 Egyptian revolutionary context.
Perspectives
A new field of Islamic law, called "Jurisprudence of the Revolution" and studied in this article may inform forms of political mobilization and protests in Muslim-Majority countries in the future. This publication is part of a broader research project and is an invitation to revisit the meaning of Sharia, including by exploring its multiple dimensions.
Youssef Belal
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This page is a summary of: Islamic Law, Truth, Ethics, Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, May 2018, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-4390015.
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