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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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"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.

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