sexual minorities and freethinkers in Egypt and Tunisia /
First Statement of Responsibility
Tommaso Virgili.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2021.
PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Date
2108
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource.
SERIES
Series Title
Comparative constitutionalism in Muslim majority states
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Constitutionalism and Islam -- The Islamic conception of individual liberties -- What "sharia" in a constitution concretely means : the case of Egypt -- Islamic law in post-Arab spring Egyptian constitutions -- Compromises and ambiguities in the 2014 Tunisian constitution -- Introduction to the case studies -- (Il)legal persecution of freethinkers -- (Il)legal persecution of sexual minorities -- Constitutional and international freedoms -- Conclusions -- Constitutions and individual freedom: the unbreakable bond.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book explores how Islam, its laws and principles, affects individual liberties. It focuses on the constitutions of Tunisia and Egypt, two countries which have experienced at least partial democracy following the Arab Spring. The work examines a number of sensitive topics from an Islamic perspective, and concludes with two specific case studies in the concerned countries"--