Projektnummer

0065003

Zusammenfassung

"Moral Quandaries: Religion and Modern Law in Egypt" explores the entanglement between modern legal reform and morality. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, a new conception of law took root in Egypt. As part of the apparatus of the centralizing state, positivist law contrasted with established moral legal frameworks. Whereas these frameworks had focused on cultivating moral subjects bottom-up through communal structures, positivist law sought to discipline the individual top-down, often through threat of punishment, purposefully eschewing questions of morality. This project traces the ma...