A First Violation of the Sharia Provision: Egypt's SCC's Ruling of 15 January 2006, in the Case No. 113/xxvi (Annotated and Translated)

In early 2006, Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court found a statutory provision in force at the time of the decision to be in violation of the constitutional provision declaring the principles of Islamic law the chief source of legislation (Article 2). It was the first time since the provision was originally introduced in the Constitution in 1971 and later amended in 1980. Since this ruling, the Court found another two statutory provisions to be in violation of the sharia provision in the latter's five decades of operation, in 2013 and in 2021.