...Paul Sedra The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt Tamir Moustafa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 x, 328 pp., $85.00 (cloth) © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion as having...

... of special tribunals and exceptional procedures. Judicial remedies made constitutional governance a two-way process, where citizens could insert themselves into a conversation on state practice. Constitutional law became grounded in uncertainty as the results in very similar cases varied widely. However...

... the end of apartheid, it held its first universal elections in 1994 and promulgated a new constitution in 1996. The practices of the law, or legalism, in the four countries have interesting similarities as well as marked differences. Together, we hope to show, they describe...

... a conceptual framework for doing so, centered on a Gramscian rethinking of the relationship among law, social movements, and state formation in the longue durée of Indian democracy. Working across three hegemonic transitions in Indian democracy, we argue that social movements and the state have constituted...

... “hot spot” in the region. The question of who or what constitutes the police force is as important as the question of what it does . The categories of police or law enforcer and those who are policed are malleable and contingent. Networks of secrecy, transparency, and trust are produced through...

...Junaid Quadri Abstract Taking the complexity and diversity of Islamic law ( fiqh ) as a point of departure, this article examines a series of positions advanced by Muslim jurists on the relationship between law and astronomy. Focusing primarily on the question of the appropriateness of relying...

...Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Abstract The constitutional history thread woven through Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires unites Afghan, Indian, Ottoman, Islamic, modernist, and other strands of analysis. Hanifi's essay addresses issues...

.... The language of the constitution itself establishes both shar‘ and inalienable rights as the basis of governance. The first article of the Supplementary Constitutional Law holds that the ruler of Iran has to be Muslim and propagate Islam. Article 8, on the other hand, recognizes that all the people...

... dreams, was the rise of revolutionary enthu- the concept of velayat-­e faqih (governance of the siasm in the Third-­Worldly political atmosphere highest canonist) in a subsequent stage was in- of the 1960s and 1970s, which, like other parts troduced into the constitutional law, which later...

... : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . Hussain Nasser . The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2003 . Klug Heinz . Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism, and South Africa’s Political Reconstruction . Cambridge...

... other of secular short and far law Ultimately,fell religious area law. between this the in conflict before and the law reconcile equality not given could and constitution citizens the however, as Jews, Christians, recognized press. were the of Zoroastrians freedom supported and and councils provincial...

... literae perven- ing the ways in which the Constitution operates erint) evokes the indeterminacy of jurisdiction —  as a fetish that doubly posits a fiction of race war of the people and places to which the formal let- as an alibi for its own lawlessness and a fiction of ter of the law can speak...

... . Republic of South Africa ( 1993 ) “Constitution of the Republic of South Africa”, in Bekker, J.C., and G. Carpenter (eds.) (1994) Butterworths Selection of Statutes and Constitutional Law (Durban: Butterworths). Republic of South Africa, Government of National Unity ( 1994 ) “RDP White Paper...

... Constitution (1930) . In Le Costituzioni Degli Stati del Vicino Oriente , by Giannini Amedeo . Rome : Istituto per l'Oriente , 1931 . Accessed February 15, 2015 . www.dircost.unito.it/cs/docs/Siria%20franc.htm . Syrian Constitution ( 1973 ). International Constitutional Law Project...

... the perspective of both Ottoman Turkish and Arab migrants from the west and Indian migrants from the east. The 1923 constitution and supplemental law codes, together known as the Nizamnama Amaniyya (or, Amanullah Codes), receive closest attention in chapter 5. Ahmed argues that Aman Allah's state-building project...

...- not justifiable in law, should the new Republican ment agent (GA).31 The DPA in turn was placed Constitution, with its National State Assembly and under the central supervision of the prime min- Constitutional Court, not be considered a “use- ister’s coordinating...

... we find in colonial legal archives are debates on constitutional law and the administration of exception that took place in the proverbial “wings,” off the main “stage” of European legal discourse to which Agamben devotes all of his attention. In these contexts—in the texts of colonial legal scholars...

... and the democratic political process which is the essential boundaries of political power in the reformist dis- condition of existence of civil society in the secular course. The protagonists of the reformist discourse argument. The secular argument for civil society, in its invoke the constitutional law...

..., article 2 of the constitution concedes forces argued for the compatibility of the prin- 113 “that no law can be ratified if in disagreement ciples of Modernity (Reason, Science, progress, with Islam.”13 To insure this, article 2 of the sup- liberty, and modern democracy) with the Sha- plementary...

... . “ Between Midnight and Republic: Theory and Practice of India's Dominion Status .” International Journal of Constitutional Law 17 , no. 4 ( 2019 ): 1213 – 34 . https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moz081 . Diagne Souleymane Bachir Diagne . Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation...