The rule of law, Islam, and constitutional politics in Egypt and Iran
By: Saïd Amir Arjomand and Nathan J. Brown, editors
Series: SUNY series. Pangaea II : global/local studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press; Brand: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781438445977
Subjects: Human rights; Islam and state; Judicial process; Constitutional law; Rule of law
Description: Papers originally presented at two consecutive conferences entitled, "Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in Egypt and Iran," held in November 2008. Cf. Preface, page ix.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shiite jurists and the Iranian law and constitutional order in the twentieth century / Saïd Amir Arjomand; title: The special courts of the clergy (Dadgah-e Vizheh-ye Ruhaniyyat) and the repression of dissident clergy in Iran / Mirjam Künkler; title: The principle of legality in the Iranian constitutional and criminal law / Silvia Tellenbach; title: Constitutionalism and parliamentary struggle for relevance and independence in post-Khomeini Iran / Farideh Farhi; title: The politics of property in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Kaveh Ehsani; title: Legal reforms in Egypt : the rule of law and consolidation of state authoritarianism / Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron; title: Appendix : selections from the 2007 amendments to the 1971 Constitution / translated by Dina Bishara; title: Rule of law, ideology, and human rights in Egyptian courts / Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid; title: Islam in Egypt's cacophonous constitutional order / Nathan J. Brown; title: Surviving under rule by law : explaining ideological change in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood / Bruce K. Rutherford; title: Egypt's Ulama in the state, in politics, and in the Islamist vision / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen; title: Egypt's constitutional revolution? / Nathan J. Brown.