Research Article| May 01 2018 Islamic Law, Truth, Ethics: Fatwa and Jurisprudence of the Revolution Youssef Belal Youssef Belal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 107–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4390015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Youssef Belal; Islamic Law, Truth, Ethics: Fatwa and Jurisprudence of the Revolution. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 May 2018; 38 (1): 107–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4390015 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Search Advanced Search This article is devoted to the study of questions of knowledge, law, and ethics in Islamic context. Starting with a discussion of assumptions about Islamic ethical practices in recent anthropological and historical works on the fatwa, it explores procedures of truth seeking and modes of reasoning in legal opinions authored by Islamic scholars, notably Yusuf al-Qaradawi, at the time of the Egyptian Revolution (2011). This text analyzes also the relationship between interiority and exteriority in ethical practices enabled by these legal options and exemplified by the assessment of the ruler’s faith. It studies the extent to which the very revolutionary gesture informs Islamic scholars’ own legal and ethical practice and enlightens anew the relationship between the inner and the outer as well as between the self and others. Finally, it explores the articulation between Islamic law and revolution in the Egyptian context and the ways in which the former’s authoritativeness and ethical performativity is reenacted, in contradistinction to Western liberal revolutions instituting a new legal order declaring its rupture with the past law and indifferent to the individual’s morality. Islamic law, fatwa, ethics, revolution, Egypt The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press2018 You do not currently have access to this content.