The Egyptian Civil Code — Law No. 131 of 1948 — is the most influential legal text in the modern Arab world. Drafted under Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri, it fused French civil-law structure with Islamic jurisprudence and Egyptian practice, and became the model for the civil codes of Syria, Libya, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and beyond. Obligations, contracts, tort, property and the sources of law: this is where Arab private law learned its grammar.
The full code in English serves practitioners litigating or arbitrating under Egyptian law, courts and tribunals across the region that read their own codes through Sanhuri's, and every serious student of comparative Arab law. It is the single most cited private-law text between Casablanca and Muscat.
