Constitutionalism in Islamic countries: between upheaval and continuity
By: Rainer Grote, Tilmann  J.  Röder
Contributors: Röder, Tilmann J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199759880
Subjects: Constitutional law (Islamic law); LAW / Constitutional; Constitutional law; Islamic influences; LAW / General; Law; RELIGION / Islam / Law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: INTRODUCTION (Grote and R©œder); title: PREFACE (Grote and R©œder); title: PART I: CONSTITUTIONALISM AND ISLAM: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES; title: 1. Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: A Contemporary Perspective of Islamic Law (Kamali); title: 2. The Centrality of Shar?'ah to Government and Constitutionalism in Islam (Abou El Fadl); title: 3. The Separation of Powers in the Tradition of Islamic Statehood (Quraishi); title: PART II: INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN CONSTITUTIONALISM AND SHARI'A: ANTAGONISM OR COMPLEMENTARITY?; title: 1. Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: A Survey from the Perspective of International Law (Wolfrum); title: 2. The Limited Applicability of Shar?'ah under the Constitution of Nigeria (Ebeku); title: 3. Constitutionalism in the Maghreb: Between French Heritage and Islamic Concepts (Le Roy); title: 4. The Relation between Constitution and Shar?'ah in Egypt (Sherif); title: 5. Secularism in Islamic Countries: Turkey as a Model (©zbudun); title: 6. The Kingdom of Jurists: Constitutionalism in Iran (Arjomand); title: 7. Islam and the Constitutional Foundations of Pakistan (Lau); title: 8. Constitutionalism, Islam and National Identity in Malaysia (Harding); title: PART III: INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL OF CONSTITUTIONALISM; title: 1. Models of Institutional Control: The Experience of Islamic Countries (Grote); title: 2. Constitutional Jurisdiction and its Limits in the Maghreb (Gallala); title: 3. The Turkish Constitutional Court as a Defender of the Raison d'Etat (Can); title: 4. A Different Approach to the Control of Constitutionalism: Iran's Guardian Council (Shirvani); title: 5. The Last Defender of Constitutional Reason? Pakistan's Embattled Supreme Court (Khan); title: 6. Malaysia: The Politics of the Judiciary (Lee); title: PART IV: CONSTITUTIONALISM AND SEPARATION OF POWERS; title: 1. The Separation of Powers: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (R©œder); title: 2. Strong Presidentialism: The Model of Egypt (Bernard-Maugiron); title: 3. The Separation of Powers in a Fragmented State: The Case of Lebanon (Koch); title: 4. Yemen: A Burgeoning Democracy on the Arab Peninsula? (Shamiri / W©ơrth / Glosemeyer); title: 5. Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Limits of Islam (Akbarzadeh); title: 6. The Rise of Presidentialism in Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Example of Kazakhstan (Kembayev); title: 7. Westminster Democracy in an Islamic Context: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia (Grote); title: 8. Indonesia: A Presidential System with Checks and Balances (Hosen); title: PART V: EMERGING CONSTITUTIONS IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES; title: 1. Constitution-Making in Islamic Countries - A Theoretical Framework (Afsah); title: 2. Constitutionalism and Islam in Libya (Mezran); title: 3. Shar?'ah and Human Rights in the Interim Constitution of Sudan (B©œckenf©œrde); title: 4. Statehood and Constitution Building in Somalia: Islamic Responses to a Failed State (Elliesie); title: 5. Constitution-Making and State-Building: Redefining the Palestinian Nation (Khalil); title: 6. The Protection of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories (Cotran / Brown); title: 7. Islam and the State in Iraq: The Post-2003 Constitutions (Istrabadi); title: 8. Constitutional Legitimacy in Iraq: What Role Local Context? (Al-Ali); title: 9. The Separation of Powers and the Problem of Constitutional Interpretation in Afghanistan (Hashimzai); title: 10. Constitutionalism in an Islamic Republic: The Principles of the Afghan Constitution and the Conflicts between them (Moschtaghi); title: LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; title: INDEX.