Allal al-Fassi: Visions of ShariÊ¿a in Post-Colonial Moroccan State Law

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Chapter 12 Allal al-Fassi: Visions of ShariÊ¿a in Post-Colonial Moroccan State Law

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Allal al-Fassi is one of the most formative figures in twentieth-century Moroccan intellectual history. Most scholarship on al-Fassi focuses on either his political manoeuvring (colonial and post-colonial) or his vision of Islamic modernism in the 1950sâ60s. In this paper, I propose to bridge these two aspects of al-Fassiâs multifaceted life by examining two specific issues that occupied his post-colonial political and intellectual endeavors. The first is the 1957 Moroccan Personal Status Code (Mudawwana) for which al-Fassi served on the codification commission. The second is the 1965 Law of Legal Unification, in support of which al-Fassi intervened publicly. In both cases, al-Fassi underscored the political stakes of supporting these initiatives in the new state while insisting that they preserved Islamic legal tradition. Using multiple source materials, I argue that al-Fassi promoted each initiative by envisioning a flexible all-encompassing Islamic legal tradition as the ultimate foil to Moroccoâs colonial past. Al-Fassiâs construction of historical narrative is particularly crucial to ground both political initiatives in Islamic precedent. I ultimately propose that al-Fassiâs use of these argumentative methods stands out as much as the substance of the projects themselves.

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Contemporary Moroccan Thought

On Philosophy, Theology, Society, and Culture

Series:Â Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 186

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004519534

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 Oct 2024

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