Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran

Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of several books, including After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors. Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author and editor of several books, including Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government, also published by SUNY Press.

"Arjomand and Brown are widely recognized as the leading scholars in their respective fields. Their book offers readers a sustained inquiry and tremendous insight into the constitutional challenges in two of the largest and most influential countries in the Middle East." — Hanna Lerner, author of Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies

• PrefaceIntroductionSaïd Amir Arjomand and Nathan J. Brown1. Shi‘ite Jurists and the Iranian Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth CenturySaïd Amir Arjomand2. The Special Courts of the Clergy (Dadgah-e Vizheh-ye Ruhaniyyat) and the Repression of Dissident Clergy in IranMirjam Künkler3. The Principle of Legality in the Iranian Constitutional and CriminalSilvia Tellenbach4. Constitutionalism and Parliamentary Struggle for Relevance and Independence in Post-Khomeini IranFarideh Farhi5. The Politics of Property in the Islamic Republic of IranKaveh Ehsani6. Legal Reforms in Egypt: the Rule of Law and Consolidation of State AuthoritarianismNathalie Bernard-MaugironAppendix: Selections from the 2007 Amendments to the 1971 Constitutiontranslated by Dina Bishara7. Rule of Law, Ideology and Human Rights in Egyptian CourtsMustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid8. Islam in Egypt’s Cacophonous Constitutional OrderNathan J. Brown9. Surviving under Rule by Law: Explaining Ideological Change in Egypt’s Muslim BrotherhoodBruce K. Rutherford10. Egypt’s ‘Ulama in the State, in Politics and in the Islamist VisionJakob Skovgaard-Peteren11. Egypt’s Constitutional Revolution?Nathan J. Brown