Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development (3rd ed.)

Oxford : : Hart Publishing Limited, , 2008.

1 online resource (222 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.. - Half title page; Title verso; Title page; Acknowledgement; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Islamic Empires, the Ottoman Empire and the Circle of Justice; THE EARLY ISLAMIC ERA; THE ABBASID ERA; THE TURCO-MONGOL ERA; THE ERA OF OTTOMAN REFORM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM; THE IMPACT OF SOCIO-POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL MODERNISATION; 2 Islam and Constitutionalism since the Nineteenth Century: the Significance and Peculiarities of Iran; EARLY CONSTITUTIONALISM AS LIMITATION OF GOVERNMENT BY THE LAW. - 6 Constitution, Legitimacy and Democracy in TurkeyTURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL PREDICAMENTS; RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY; CONCLUSION; 7 Crafting a Constitution for Afghanistan; THE PATH TO LEGITIMACY; SHOW OF HANDS OR SHOW OF FORCE?; THE DEBATE OVER PRESIDENTIALISM; THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF ISLAM; ACKNOWLEDGING AFGHAN DIVERSITY; A GOOD START?; INTRODUCTION; THE MAKING OF THE INTERIM CONSTITUTION; AN EXCLUSIONARY STATE BARGAIN; AN EXCLUSIONARY STATE BARGAIN; FAILURE OF THE STATE BARGAIN AND OPTIONS OF CONSTITUTION MAKING; COLLAPSE OF CONSENSUAL PROCESS AND SUBMISSION OF A DRAFT. - INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSIONIndex. - MIDDLE EASTERN SECULAR SOCIALIST CONSTITUTIONAL MODELS AND HOW THE EROSION OF SECULARISM AFFECTED RIGHTS PROVISIONSSORTING OUT THE ROLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND ISLAM IN THE AFGHAN CONSTITUTION AND THE IRAQI TRANSITIONAL LAW AND CONSTITUTION; CONCLUSION; 5 The Guardian of the Regime: the Turkish Constitutional Court in Comparative Perspective; THE TURKISH CONSTITUTION: DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT; THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT AND THE JUDICIALISATION OF TURKISH POLITICS; THE TURKISH CONSTITUTIONAL COURT: INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN; DIVISION OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE STATE STRUCTURE IN IRAN; CONCLUSIONS. - TRANSFORMATION OF MIDDLE EASTERN PUBLIC LAW: CODIFICATION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, EGYPT AND IRANREVOLUTION, ISLAMIC IDEOLOGICAL CONSTITUTION-MAKING AND CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN IRAN; IRAN IN COMPARISON WITH AFGHANISTAN; CONCLUSION; 3 Bargaining and Imposing Constitutions; LIBERAL AND LOCAL TRADITIONS; THEORY AND PRACTICE IN IRAN, AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ; ATTAINING LEGITIMACY IN AN EVERYDAY POLITICAL WORLD; INTRODUCTION; AN ERA OF AGGRAVATED TENSIONS BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND ISLAMIC LAW; INDIGENISING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ACCORDING TO ISLAMIC STANDARDS OR OPENING THEM TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS?. - This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution-making in the Middle East. The historical background and setting are fully explored in two substantial essays by Linda Darling and Saïd Amir Arjomand, placing the contemporary experience in the contexts, respectively, of the ancient Middle Eastern legal and political tradition and of the nineteenth and twentieth century legal codification and political modernization. These are followed by Ann Mayer's general analysis of the treatment of human rights in relation to Islam in Middle Eastern

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