Politics of Law and the Courts in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

1ST EDITION, hardcover, glossy boards, issued w/o dust jacket. Publisher's statement: "This study captures the interaction between local and international factors, both political and economic, that affected the establishment of an effective civil and criminal court system in Egypt during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Possibly no single institution in modern Middle East history has received more attention than the Mixed Courts of Egypt. Writers of many nationalities surveyed the mixed court activities as unique extensions of the legal principle of extra-territoriality which began much earlier as part of the Ottoman Turkish imperial capitulatory regime. Author Cannon has consulted numerous original Arabic sources to verify the social and economic effects of the Egyptian legal reform efforts and has examined the transitional generation, especially Egyptian lawyers, to explain the dual phenomena of social mobilization and political activism in early twentieth-century Egypt." Sections on: Perspectives on Justice in the Tanzimat Period (1839-1875) ; Imposed Innovation and the Formation of Interest Groups (1876-82) ; Political Adjustment and Professional Opinion (1882-90) ; Rising Expectations and Social Deceptions (1889-91)