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Abdel-Razzak el-Sanhuri (1895-1971) (Arabic: عبد الرزاق السنهوري) was an Egyptian legal scholar and professor who drafted the first version of the Egyptian Civil Code in 1949. Sanhuri was known for attempting to recreate a "pure" Islamic law by modernizing the sharia using Western civil law. One commentator argued that Sanhuri's code reflected a "hodgepodge of socialist doctrine and sociological jurisprudence."[1]
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- Hill, Enid, Al-Sanhuri and Islamic Law, (1987), ISBN 977-424-170-3.
- Riles, Annelise (ed.), Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law, (2001), ISBN 1-84113-289-6.
- Shalakany, Amr, Between Identity and Redistribution: Sanhuri, Genealogy and the Will to Islamise, in Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 8(2), 2001, ISSN 0928-9380.
