Tommaso Virgili

Islam, Constitutional Law and Human Rights

Sexual Minorities And Freethinkers In Egypt And Tunisia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari¿a and the Islamic ethos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780367200640
• ISBN-10: 0367200643
• Artikelnr.: 62233357

Autorenporträt

Tommaso Virgili is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where he works on modernization movements and reform theology within Islam in response to the challenge of fundamentalism, with a focus on Europe and the MENA region. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Public Law from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. Dr. Virgili is also a Research Associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Brian Whitaker
Chapter I Constitutionalism And Islam
Chapter II The Islamic Conception Of Individual Liberties
Chapter III What "Shari¿A" In A Constitution Concretely Means: The Case Of
Egypt
Chapter IV Islamic Law In Post-Arab Spring Egyptian Constitutions
Chapter V Compromises And Ambiguities In The 2014 Tunisian Constitution
Chapter VI (Il)Legal Persecution Of Freethinkers
Final Reflections On Egyptian And Tunisian Freethinkers: Public Order And
Fitna
Chapter VII (Il)Legal Persecution Of Sexual Minorities
Chapter VIII Constitutional And International Freedoms
Conclusions Constitutions And Individual Freedom: The Unbreakable Bond