David F. Forte

Egyptian Land Law: An Evaluation

Egypt was not unique when, in 1949, it undertook to introduce a modern, Western-style Civil Code into a traditional society. Both Islamic and non-Islamic underdeveloped nations have sought to lay a basis for participation in modern economic and commercial activities by adopting a Western civil code. Indeed, even larger states such as the Soviet Union and China (before the rise of Mao Tse-tung) followed the same route.