Feb 1, 2013

Islam and Constitutionalism

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by Sohail Hashmi / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Ash‘ari, Constitutionalism, Hadiths, Hanafis, Ibn Khaldun, Ijtihad, Islam, Malikis, Muqaddima, Mu‘tazilis, Qur’an, Sharia, Shura, Sunna, ulema, Umma

The Arab Spring has ushered in a new round of constitution making in Arab states, but will it also bring a new era of constitutionalism? Virtually all of the forty-four or so Muslim-majority states have embraced the idea that a …

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• The Formidable Philosophical Obstacles to Islamic Constitutionalism
  

  by Robert Reilly / 0 Comments

  Filed Under: Ash‘arites, Constitutionalism, Dīn wa-dawla, Divine Law, Islam, Islamists, Mu‘tazalites, Natural Law, Salafists, Sharia

• Muslim States and the Protection of Fundamental Rights
  

  by Asma Uddin / 0 Comments

  Filed Under: 1981 Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights, Cairo Declaration on Human Rights, Indonesia's 1965 Blasphemy Act, Mu’tazili school of jurisprudence, Pakistan's Martial Ordinance XX, Sharia, Towards an Islamic Reformation, Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Zaheerudin v. State

• Islamic Constitutionalism and Human Flourishing
  

  by David French / 3 Comments

  Filed Under: Divine Law, Islamic Constitutionalism, Natural Law, Salafists, Sharia, Wahhabists, Western Constitutionalism