Editing Qasim Amin (section)

==Career==
After his accomplishment in France, Amin became a part of the British Empire's civil servant class and, in 1885, he was appointed a jurist in the Mixed Courts, which had been created ten years earlier. These courts had western influence as they were based partly on the Napoleonic judicial system as well as on Islamic Law. Also, the jurists tended to be from England, Austria, Germany, or France.<ref>Huquq al-nisa fi l-Islam ("Women's rights in Islam"), Cairo 1900.</ref> Amin had a successful tenure. The court's governmental tribunal often competed with the religious courts in its decision making, and it was noted for its true reflection of the "right way" because it based its judgments on valid and sound reasoning.<ref>Hoyle, Mark S. "The Mixed Courts of Egypt: 1906-1915." Arab Quarterly." 2, no1 (May 1987).</ref> By 1887, Amin had entered the predominately western-run Egyptian office of the Government Division of Legal Affairs. Within four years, he was selected as one of the National Court's Egyptian judges. He was also the Chancellor of the Cairo National Court of Appeals.<ref>Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt, Arthur Goldschmidt</ref>

Amin was one of the founders of [[Cairo University]], known then as the National University, and was a member of its constituent committee.<ref>Louis Awad, The literature of ideas in Egypt, Volume 1, Scholars Press, 1986.</ref> He insisted that Egypt needed a Western-style university.<ref>Philip Mattar, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa: A-C, Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.</ref> He was appointed as the university's first secretary-general,<ref>The Egyptian upper class between revolutions, 1919-1952, Magda Baraka, St. Antony's College (University of Oxford). Middle East Centre</ref> and also its Vice-President.<ref>Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt, Donald Malcolm Reid</ref>