The rule of law, Islam, and constitutional politics in Egypt and Iran / edited by Saïd Amir Arjomand and Nathan J. Brown. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2013. - xi, 326 pages ; 24 cm. - SUNY series, Pangaea II: global/local studies . - SUNY series, Pangaea II. .

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 -- 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.

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.

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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.
Constitutional law.
Human rights.
Islam and state.
Judicial process.
Rule of law.
Islam.
Recht.
Verfassungsrecht.
Menschenrecht.


Egypt.
Iran.
Ägypten.
Iran.

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