Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Shiʿite Jurists and the Iranian Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century 15
8. The Special Court of the Clergy (Dādgāh-e Vizheh-ye Ruhāniyat) and the Repression of Dissident Clergy in Iran 57
9. The Principle of Legality in the Iranian Constitutional and Criminal Law 101
10. Constitutionalism and Parliamentary Struggle for Relevance and Independence in Post-Khomeini Iran 123
11. The Politics of Property in the Islamic Republic of Iran 153
12. Legal Reforms, the Rule of Law, and Consolidation of State Authoritarianism under Mubarak 179
13. Selections from the 2007 Amendments to the 1971 Constitution 207
14. Rule of Law, Ideology, and Human Rights in Egyptian Courts 211
15. Islam in Egypt’s Cacophonous Constitutional Order 233
16. Surviving under Rule by Law 249
17. Egypt’s ʿUlama in the State, in Politics, and in the Islamist Vision 279
18. Egypt’s Constitutional Revolution? 303
19. Contributors 313
20. Index 315