Democracy under God : constitutions, Islam, and human rights in the Muslim world

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Democracy under God : constitutions, Islam, and human rights in the Muslim world

Dawood Ahmed, Muhammad Zubair Abbasi

(Comparative constitutional law and policy)

Cambridge University Press, 2023

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index

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State recognition of Islam in Muslim countries invites fierce debate from scholars and politicians alike, some of whom assume an inherent conflict between Islam and liberal democracy. Analyzing case studies and empirical data from several Muslim-majority countries, Ahmed and Abbasi find, counterintuitively, that in many Muslim countries, constitutional recognition of Islam often occurs during moments of democratization. Indeed, the insertion of Islam in a constitution is frequently accompanied by an expansion, not a reduction, in constitutional human rights, with case law from higher courts in Egypt and Pakistan demonstrating that potential tensions between the constitutional pursuit of human rights, liberal democracy and Islam are capable of judicial resolution. The authors also argue that colonial history was pivotal in determining whether a country adopted the constitutional path of Islam or secularism partly explaining why Islam in constitutional politics survived and became more prevalent in Muslim countries that were colonized by the British, and not those colonized by the French or Soviets.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Part I. 1. Islamic constitutionalism: origins and present
  • 2. What is an Islamic constitution?
  • Part II. 3. Constitutional Islamisation and Islamic supremacy clauses
  • 4. Case studies
  • Part III. 5. Islamic supremacy clauses and rights - Islamic review in practice
  • Conclusion.

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