NPF Cycle One Fellows and Projects
Mohamed Ayoub: The Problem of Legislative Authority in the Modern Egyptian State
Abstract: The main problem the researcher sees is that the legislative authority in the modern national centralized state is different from how it was during the Ottoman Caliphate and that the current attempts to revive the role of jurists outside of the political framework of the state is entirely unthinkable because the legislative authority can no longer be isolated from the political and judicial authority of the state. Therefore, with the process of the nationalization of religious endowments, the establishment of Faculties of Law and unified civil courts for all Egyptians, the judiciary in Egypt has exited religious institutions, after the closing of the Sharia Judicial School (مدرسة القضاء الشرعي). The judiciary has emerged out of a different social class and a different education that serves the modern state. This is the critical dimension that the study will focus on.
Mohamed Ayoub is a PhD researcher in the ‘’history of the legislative authority in the modern Egyptian state’’ at the Faculty of Law, University of Alexandria, Egypt. He has a Master’s degree in public and criminal laws and their relationship to human rights in Egypt, from Tanta University. His Bachelor’s degree is in Sharia and Law from the University of Al-Azhar. He has worked in the field of academic research and publishing since 2010 and participated in several conferences at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, as well as the first conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences in Beirut, with a paper about the future of the legislative frameworks after the Arab Spring and the role of Islamic law in this context.
Abstract: The main problem the researcher sees is that the legislative authority in the modern national centralized state is different from how it was during the Ottoman Caliphate and that the current attempts to revive the role of jurists outside of the political framework of the state is entirely unthinkable because the legislative authority can no longer be isolated from the political and judicial authority of the state. Therefore, with the process of the nationalization of religious endowments, the establishment of Faculties of Law and unified civil courts for all Egyptians, the judiciary in Egypt has exited religious institutions, after the closing of the Sharia Judicial School (مدرسة القضاء الشرعي). The judiciary has emerged out of a different social class and a different education that serves the modern state. This is the critical dimension that the study will focus on.
Mohamed Ayoub is a PhD researcher in the ‘’history of the legislative authority in the modern Egyptian state’’ at the Faculty of Law, University of Alexandria, Egypt. He has a Master’s degree in public and criminal laws and their relationship to human rights in Egypt, from Tanta University. His Bachelor’s degree is in Sharia and Law from the University of Al-Azhar. He has worked in the field of academic research and publishing since 2010 and participated in several conferences at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, as well as the first conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences in Beirut, with a paper about the future of the legislative frameworks after the Arab Spring and the role of Islamic law in this context.
