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David French is Senior Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

February 1, 2013|Divine Law, Islamic Constitutionalism, Natural Law, Salafists, Sharia, Wahhabists, Western Constitutionalism

Islamic Constitutionalism and Human Flourishing

by David French|4 Comments

Tunisia's Constitutional Assembly, November 2011

I’m deeply grateful for Professor Hashmi’s lead essay and would recommend it to anyone interested in the intellectual history of Islam or curious about the distinctions between a modern Islamic view of the relationship between government and religion and the modern, dominant view of the Christian and post-Christian West.  It is not, in fact, my purpose to rebut Professor Hashmi.  Indeed, I defer to his superior knowledge of Islamic thought and history.  Rather I come at the question of Islam and constitutionalism from my own experience as a lawyer and soldier – one who has experienced first-hand the relationship between…

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