Wonderful book! The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed the evolution of a movement to reform, revive and apply Islamic law in the face of European law reception. This movement has been named "Islamic Legal Revivalism" in this book. A detailed history of legal thought of that era is outstandingly put in its chapters. A reader may be astonished to know how deep was the influence of French lawyers (e.g. Lambert) in the transformation and making of the legal thought. Moreover, the roles of the revivalists like Sanhuri, Abdul Qadi Awdah, Shaykh Ahmad Ibrahim are also explained precisely in the last chapter. At first, Islamic Legal Revivalists accomplished minimal gains as the demonstrated a light grasp of the Franco-Egyptian law that they opposed. But after 1930s, the rigor of revivalist thought improved. Although ideas about 鈥淚slamic鈥� constitutional jurisprudence gained the greatest momentum in Egypt after 1952, the pre-1952 Egyptian legal scene was deeply influenced by civil code theory. Those interested in legal history of Egypt may benefit greatly from this book.