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Title

A tale of two stories : customary marriage and paternity : a discourse analysis of a scandal in Egypt / Björn Bentlage.

Author

Bentlage, Björn, 1979-

Publication

• Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag, [2017]
• ©2017

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Description

337 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book inves­ti­gates an Egyp­tian scandal about paternity and marriage in the years 2004 to 2007. It asks about legal change in Egyp­tian family law and Islamic juri­s­pru­dence while also inqui­ring into the effects of media coverage. The study draws from a variety of sources, inclu­ding news­paper arti­cles, court rulings, univer­sity text­books, fatwas, etc. The resul­ting presen­ta­tion tells two diffe­ring stories about the affair of Hind al-Ḥinnāwī and Aḥmad al-Fīšāwī: one is dramatic and promises change, the other is tech­nical and purports routine. In order to make sense of this, both stories are situated in a discourse analytical frame­work. Buil­ding on the distinc­tion of special discourse, inter­dis­course, and elemen­tary discourse, the combined analysis of both tales deve­lops a new perspec­tive on the issue of change and arrives at an inter­dis­cur­sive view of legal deve­lop­ment in Egyp­tian family law."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; Band 333

Uniform Title

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Bd. 333.

Alternative Title

Customary marriage and paternity : a discourse analysis of a scandal in Egypt

Subject

• Al-Fīšāwī, Ahṃad
• Al-Hịnnāwī, Hind
• Common law marriage (Islamic law) > Egypt
• Discourse analysis
• Domestic relations (Egyptian law)
• Domestic relations > Egypt > Cases
• Paternity (Islamic law) > Egypt
• Paternity > Egypt
• Scandals > Egypt > History
• Scandals in mass media

Genre/Form

• History
• Trials, litigation, etc.

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Initial interest and previous mentions of the case -- Reorientation -- Law and sharia in contemporary Egypt -- Contextualization -- Media and mediatization -- (Inter-)discourse theory -- Synopsis and sources -- Prologue -- Special discourse-the legal story of Hind and Ahṃad -- Draft complaint -- Theoretical perspectives on Egyptian law -- The historical emergence of a special discursive formation -- The apparatuses and special discourses of Egyptian law -- The black letter part of the special discourse of law -- The reflective part of the special discourse of law -- The relation of qānūn and fiqh in personal status law -- A digression on shariatic references- -- The concept of marriage -- The marital regime -- The documentation of marriage -- The concept of lineage -- Legal questions -- The classification of sexual relations -- The rules of evidence -- The verdict -- Interdiscourse-the public story of Ahṃad and Hind -- Theory -- A contradistinction of source types -- Jürgen Link's model of interdiscourse -- Narrative patterns -- Drama -- Act : Truth -- Act : the discussions -- Act : the contestation -- Act : the campaign -- Scandal -- Scandals and mediatization -- A mediated scandal in Egypt -- Phase 1. latency -- Cause -- Phase 2. ascent -- -Sequential problems- -- Phase 2. ascent (continued) -- Phase 3. consolidation -- Climax -- Phase 4. Fall -- Phase 5. rehabilitation -- Comments on dramatic presentation and the analysis as a scandal -- Mediated scandals and interdiscourse -- Discourse Analysis-perspectives on legal change and development -- The case of zayna and Ahṃad 'Izz (Egypt, 2015) -- Discursive events -- Legal development and the special discourses of modern law and fiqh -- Legislative changes -- The law no. 1 of the year 2000 -- The law proposals of 2006 -- Interpretational development -- Official fatwas -- Judicial precedent -- Judicial discretion -- Expert debates and discussions -- Legal development and interdiscourse -- The scandal as an interdiscursive event -- General mechanisms of interdiscursive depiction -- Accuracy and inaccuracy -- Inclusiveness -- Repetition and emphasis -- Inconsistencies and conflations -- Discourse positions and collective symbols -- Debate structures in Egypt -- The interdiscursive event -- Standpoints and stances on lineage and genetic testing -- The religious conservative standpoint -- The liberal progressive standpoint -- Continued : the religious conservative standpoint -- The hegemonial standpoint -- Shifting discourse positions -- Conclusion -- An interdiscursive model of of legal development -- Additional event types and the Arab Spring -- Additional event types and elementary discourse -- The dynamics of legal development -- The relevance of interdiscursive events for legal development -- The relevance of the scandal -- The general relevance of interdiscursive events -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Laws and legal texts -- Newspaper articles and other journalistic sources -- Other publications.

ISBN

9783879974641

OCLC

1004222559

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library