TY - BOOK AU - Nakissa,Aria TI - The Anthropology of Islamic law: education, ethics, and legal interpretation at Egypt's al-Azhar SN - 9780190932886 U1 - 297.140181 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Jāmiʻat al-Azhar KW - Islamic law KW - Egypt N1 - Based on author's thesis in cultural anthropology (doctoral - Harvard University, 2012) issued under title: Islamic law and legal education in modern Egypt; Includes bibliographical references and index; Hermeneutic theory and practice theory in the study of cultural, legal, and religious traditions -- Higher religious learning in modern Egypt -- Shari a, Sunna, and ethics -- Acquiring knowledge through companionship (suhba) -- The sanad -- Taking from the mouths of shaykhs (mushafaha) -- The structure of islamic legal thought -- Reorganizing time and space -- Transforming the act of reading -- Salafism and wasatism ER -