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

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, counterintuiti...

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Главные авторы: Ahmed, Dawood 1983- (Автор) ; Abbasi, Muhammad Zubair 1982- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023
В:Год: 2023
Обзоры:[Rezension von: Ahmed, Dawood, 1983-, Democracy under God : constitutions, Islam, and human rights in the Muslim world] (2025) (Scott, Rachel M.)
Серии журналов/журналы:Comparative constitutional law and policy
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Islamische Staaten / Конституционное право
Другие ключевые слова:B Human Rights (Islamic countries)
B Constitutional law (Islamic law)
B Law Islamic influences (Islamic countries)
B Constitutional Law (Islamic countries)
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Итог: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.
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Объем:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 209 Seiten), Diagramme
ISBN:1316662616
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781316662618