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Zusatztext ...both important and [welcome] because it sheds light on the murky spaces in the constitutionalism discourse and dispels many myths about Islam...By comparing Iran's constitutional experience with that of its neighbor! Afghanistan! Arjomand sharpens our understanding of the central questions of the role and potential of Islam in effecting social change...by insightfully capturing the complexity and challenges of constitution-making in the Middle East! the book lives up to its editor's hope that its topic indeed "deserves the same attention as other salient contemporary trends." Informationen zum Autor Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the founder and President (1996-2002, 2005-08) of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. Klappentext This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution-making in the Middle East. Zusammenfassung This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution-making in the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Saïd Amir Arjomand Islamic Empires, the Ottoman Empire, and the Circle of Justice Linda T. Darling Islam and Constitutionalism since the Nineteenth Century: The Significance and Peculiarities of Iran Saïd Amir Arjomand Bargaining and Imposing Constitutions: Private and Public Interests in the Iranian, Afghani, and Iraqi Constitutional Experiments Nathan J. Brown The Respective Roles of Human Rights and Islam: An Unresolved Conundrum for Middle Eastern Constitutions Ann Elizabeth Mayer The Guardian of the Regime: The Turkish Constitutional Court in Comparative Perspective Hootan Shambayati Constitution, Legitimacy and Democracy in Turkey Mehmet Fevzi Bilgin Crafting a Constitution for Afghanistan Barnett R. Rubin From Interim to Permanent Constitution in Iraq Andrew Arato ...
