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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