The Constitution of Iran

A milestone in our understanding of the ideology and practice of an Islamic state, this book chronicles and analyses political life in Iran since the revolution showing the gradual transformation of the state from intended theocracy and republic to a hierocracy in which Islam and the shari'a play a subordinate role. Asghar Schirazi takes as his starting point the major contradictions inherent in the constitution - between its legalistic and democratic components and between the alleged potential of a legally and ideologically interpreted Islam as a means of solving social problems, and the growing evidence that this Islam is an inadequate legal and political basis for government in present-day Iran. Through a detailed examination of the genesis of the constitution, its content and its actual development since the inception of the Islamic Republic to the present day, this study charts the elimination in practice of the constitution's democratic elements and the gradual replacement of Islamic legalism with the interest of the state as the key criterion for dealing with problems. Schirazi argues that in this manner a separation of state and religion is taking place.

המשפט הראשון: This chapter sets out, and analyses, the points of conflict between the three major elements  Islamic legalist, secular and democratic  of the 1979 Constitution leaving the question of how and why they became such uncomfortable bedfellows to the next, which takes a close look at the historical and political dynamics that shaped the document.

שנה

1997

שפה

English

הוצאה

I. B. Tauris

מהדורות

1

עמודים

336

ISBN

9781860642531

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata