UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF APOSTASY IN EGYPT | AS A MANIFESTATION OF SECULAR RECONSTRUCTION OF SHARIA BY A MODERN STATE

Ahmed Sedky

ISBN 10: 6204731866 / ISBN 13: 9786204731865

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2021

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UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF APOSTASY IN EGYPT | AS A MANIFESTATION OF SECULAR RECONSTRUCTION OF SHARIA BY A MODERN STATE | Ahmed Sedky | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2021 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9786204731865 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF APOSTASY IN EGYPT | AS A MANIFESTATION OF SECULAR RECONSTRUCTION OF SHARIA BY A MODERN STATE
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6204731866
• ISBN 13: 9786204731865
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 11D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 268 grams
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The legal consequences of renouncing Islam or apostasy, which include depriving the apostate from some civil rights and the non-recognition of the act itself by law in Egypt, have been usually criticized as a blatant violation of the right to religious freedom according to international human rights law. The dominant reasoning for this violation, according to the majority of the related literature, is the conservative interpretation of Sharia, the principal source of law, that has been adopted by Egyptian judiciary for more than fifty years. The advocates of this point of view argue that such violation could be resolved through adopting more lenient Sharia rulings concerning apostasy. Investigating the situation of apostasy from a broader legal perspective beyond the rhetoric of human rights demonstrates that resolving the complicated legal status of apostasy starts from realizing the legal framework of apostasy in Egypt as a single indication among others of legal pluralism. It is a problem that stems from the conflict between the rulings of both Sharia and IHRL, as law sources, regarding apostasy and their vague interpretation by the modern Egyptian state.