L’aliénation mentale devant les juges égyptiens pendant la période de tutelle britannique

Abstract

Law and medicine have known a specific development, in Egypt, at the beginning of the 19th century. The different Egyptian courts dealt with cases that implied a psychiatric dimension in both penal and civil proceedings. Through the journal al-Muhâmâ, it is aimed to give an account of the multiple intersections of knowledge and categories, their location in the contemporary Egyptian legal and judicial dynamic, and the mutations that they imply in the understanding of both law and the human psyche, at a pivotal historical moment for Egypt.

Keywords

• law
• insanity
• guardian courts
• al-Muhâmâ
• Egypt