The rule of law, Islam, and constitutional politics in Egypt and Iran

The rule of law, Islam, and constitutional politics in Egypt and Iran /

In the early years of the twenty-first century, Egypt and Iran have been beset with demands for fundamental change. This book draws together leading regional experts to provide a penetrating comparative analysis of the ways Islam is entangled with the process of democratization in authoritarian regi...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Arjomand, Said Amir, Brown, Nathan J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2013
Series:SUNY series, Pangaea II.
Subjects:
Rule of law > Iran.
Rule of law > Egypt.
Judicial process > Iran.
Judicial process > Egypt.
Constitutional law > Iran.
Constitutional law > Egypt.
Islam and state > Iran.
Islam and state > Egypt.
Human rights > Egypt.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Shi'ite jurists and the Iranian law and constitutional order in the twentieth century / Saïd Amir Arjomand
  • The special courts of the clergy (Dādgāh-e Vizheh-ye Ruhāniyat) and the repression of dissident clergy in Iran / Mirjam Künkler
  • The principle of legality in the Iranian constitutional and criminal law / Silvia Tellenbach
  • Constitutionalism and parliamentary struggle for relevance and independence in post-Khomeini Iran / Farideh Farhi
  • The politics of property in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Kaveh Ehsani
  • Legal reforms in Egypt : the rule of law and consolidation of state authoritarianism / Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron
  • Selections from the 2007 amendments to the 1971 Constitution / compiled and translated by Dina Bishara
  • Rule of law, ideology, and human rights in Egyptian courts / Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid
  • Islam in Egypt's cacophonous constitutional order / Nathan J. Brown
  • Surviving under rule by law : explaining ideological change in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood during the Mubarak era / Bruce K. Rutherford
  • Egypt's 'Ulama in the state, in politics, and in the Islamist vision / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
  • Egypt's constitutional revolution? / Nathan J. Brown.

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