Standing trial : law and the person in the modern Middle East / edited by Baudouin Dupret.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. General considerations on the person and the law. The person and the law : contingency, individuation and the subject of the law / Baudouin Dupret ; The articulation of 'I', 'we' and the 'person' : elements for an anthropological approach within Western and Islamic contexts / Mohamed Nachi ; A ghost in the machine : against the use of the notion of 'person' in sociology / Jean-Noël Ferrié -- part 2. Persons in legal settings. Justice, law and pain in Khedival Egypt / Khaled Fahmy ; The 'implosion' of sharîʻa within the emergence of public normativity : the impact on personal responsibility and the impersonality of law / Armando Salvatore ; The misbehaviour of the possessed : on spirits, morality and the person / Barbara Drieskens ; The person and justice in a Tunisian souq : a reflection upon the linkages between justice, impartiality and respect for the person / Mohamed Nachi ; Intention in action : a pragmatic approach to criminal characterisation in an Egyptian context / Baudouin Dupret -- part 3. Legal figures of the person. The notion of 'person' between law and practice : a study of the principles of personal responsibility and of the personal nature of punishment in Egyptian criminal law / Murielle Paradelle ; The regimentation of the subject : madness in Islamic and modern Arab civil laws / Oussama Arabi ; The person and his body : medical ethics and Egyptian law / Baudouin Dupret ; Can hisba be 'modernized'? : the individual and the protection of the general interest before Egyptian courts / Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron ; Regulating tolerance : protecting Egypt's minorities / Maurits Berger.