Reviving Islamic legislation: reception of European law and transformations in Islamic legislative thought in Egypt by Leonard Wood, translated by Dr. Badr Al-Din Mustafa

The author aims in this book to add further research on the intellectual history of Islamic legislative revival, as it presents in a technical and philosophical manner how the interaction took place between the elite of jurisprudential and legal studies from Azhar scholars and Egyptian national lawyers, and European legal jurists, and attempts to reconcile between Western law imposed primarily by colonial circumstances, and the desire for modernization that followed it, and Islamic Sharia in its traditional form, during the period between 1875 and 1952. It reviews the technical aspects of jurisprudential and legal craftsmanship on one hand, and the accompanying intellectual, educational, political, and cultural contexts on the other, in a methodology that combines legal and jurisprudential research, sociology of jurisprudence and law, and history of ideas. The book is originally a doctoral thesis from Harvard Law School, by a researcher known for extensive knowledge and deep experience in legal and jurisprudential studies in the Middle East in general and Egypt in particular. Leonard Wood: practicing lawyer, independent researcher, and lecturer at Harvard University on the political and intellectual history of the Arab world, and a former researcher in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He holds a PhD in history and Middle Eastern studies from the same university. He is a lawyer specializing in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets.