RT Article
T1 Islamic Law, Unitary State Law, and Communal Law: Divorce and Remarriage in Egypt’s Coptic Community
JF Exchange
VO 49
IS 3/4
SP 215
OP 236
A1 Scott, Rachel M.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1747439908
AB Abstract Egypt’s Coptic community is currently appealing to different legal jurisdictions in the struggle over divorce and remarriage. While the Coptic Orthodox Church is claiming the right, based on Islamic law, to apply its own communal law for marriage, others are calling on the church to reinterpret the biblical texts regarding divorce. Still other Copts are appealing to the constitution and to unitary state law to override a communal approach to personal status law. The case of divorce and remarriage in Egypt illustrates the ways in which Christian communal law, unitary state law, and Islamic law do not exist as a priori concepts but are in the process of continual negotiation with one another. In examining these negotiations, this article sheds light on one of the most important legal conundrums currently facing the relationship between the Coptic community and the state in Egypt.
K1 Islamic Law
K1 unified personal status law
K1 1938 bylaws
K1 personal status law
K1 Coptic Orthodox Church
K1 Remarriage
K1 Divorce
DO 10.1163/1572543X-12341567