Politics of law and the courts in nineteenth-century Egypt

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Title:	Politics of law and the courts in nineteenth-century Egypt
Author:	Cannon, Byron
Year:	1988
Pages:	329
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Salt Lake City, Utah
Publisher:	University of Utah Press
ISBN:	0874802792
Geographic term:	Egypt
Subjects:	legal history courts
Abstract:	This study explores the interaction between local and international factors, both political and economic, that affected the establishment of an effective civil and criminal court system in Egypt during the last decades of the 19th century. Possibly no single institution in modern Middle East history has received more attention than the Mixed Courts of Egypt. Writers of many nationalities surveyed the mixed court activities as unique extensions of the legal principle of extraterritoriality which began much earlier as part of the Ottoman Turkish imperial capitulatory regime. The author has consulted many original Arabic sources to verify the social and economic effects of the Egyptian legal reform efforts and has examined the transitional generation, especially Egyptian lawyers, to explain the dual phenomena of social mobilization and political activism in early 20th-century Egypt.