The rule of law, Islam, and constitutional politics in Egypt and Iran / edited by Said Amir Arjomand and Nathan J. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arjomand, Said Amir.

Brown, Nathan J.

Series:

SUNY series, Pangaea II.

SUNY series. Pangaea II : global/local studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rule of law--Iran.

Rule of law.

Rule of law--Egypt.

Judicial process--Iran.

Judicial process.

Judicial process--Egypt.

Constitutional law--Iran.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional law--Egypt.

Islam and state--Iran.

Islam and state.

Islam and state--Egypt.

Human rights--Egypt.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In recent years, Egypt and Iran have been beset with demands for fundamental change. The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran draws together leading regional experts to provide a penetrating comparative analysis of the ways Islam is entangled with the process of democratization in authoritarian regimes. By comparing Islam and the rule of law in these two nations, one Sunni and Arab-speaking, the other Shi'ite and Persian-speaking, this volume enriches the current debate on Islam and democracy, making for a more nuanced understanding and appreciation of differences with the Muslim world, and provides an indispensible background for understanding the Green movement in Iran since 2009 and the Egyptian revolution of 2011."-from publisher website

Contents:

Shiite jurists and the Iranian law and constitutional order in the twentieth century / Saïd Amir Arjomand

The special courts of the clergy (Dadgah-e Vizheh-ye Ruhaniyyat) 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

Appendix : selections from the 2007 amendments to the 1971 Constitution / 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 / 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438445984

1438445989

OCLC:

840569833