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2 - What is an Islamic Constitution?

from Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

Dawood Ahmed  and
Muhammad Zubair Abbasi
Dawood Ahmed
Affiliation:
Comparative Constitutions Project
Muhammad Zubair Abbasi
Affiliation:
University of Bradford
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Summary

Chapter 2 introduces a model Islamic constitution. Using this model constitution, it empirically illustrates the universe of constitutional Islamization, providing data on which countries and regions have adopted constitutional Islam and in what form. It also ranks these countries in an index according to their Islamicity and then observes how the incidence of all forms of Islam in a constitution correlates with demography, geography, colonialism, and human rights.

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constitutional IslamizationIslamicityindexdemographycolonialismhuman rights
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Democracy under God
Constitutions, Islam and Human Rights in the Muslim World
 , pp. 26 - 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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