Duplicitous Constitutions

ISBN-13: 9786205499504 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str.

Raphael Israeli

Opis

Unlike Western tradition, beginning with the Magna Carta in the MiddleAgess, Constitutions were made to protect the rights of citizens from tyranny and to limit the authority of rulers so that they could not abuse their rule.In the Arab and Islamic world, constitutions are announced with big bombast almost every new ruler (most of them take the helm undemocratically), as their blueprint for their regime; but not only they are replaced by new ones by every new ruler; but they are not respected even during the tenure of the ruler who suggested them.Thus, Constitutions there are necessarily duplicitous. A sample of a civil constitution and of a religious one are cited to exemplify the problem.

O autorze

Raphael Israeli - PhD in Chinese and Islamic History, Professor of Islamic and Chinese History, Professor Emeritus.Author and editor of over 80 research books, and over 100 scholarly articles in the fields of Islamic Radicalism, Islamic Terrorism, the Modern Middle East, Islam in China, Asia and Europe.