Saïd Amir Arjomand & Nathan J. Brown 
The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran [EPUB ebook] 

Preface
Introduction
Saïd Amir Arjomand and Nathan J. Brown
1. Shi‘ite Jurists and the Iranian Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century
Saïd Amir Arjomand
2. The Special Courts of the Clergy (
Dadgah-e Vizheh-ye Ruhaniyyat) and the Repression of Dissident Clergy in Iran
Mirjam Künkler
3. The Principle of Legality in the Iranian Constitutional and Criminal
Silvia Tellenbach
4. Constitutionalism and Parliamentary Struggle for Relevance and Independence in Post-Khomeini Iran
Farideh Farhi
5. The Politics of Property in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Kaveh Ehsani
6. Legal Reforms in Egypt: the Rule of Law and Consolidation of State Authoritarianism
Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron
Appendix: Selections from the 2007 Amendments to the 1971 Constitution
translated by
Dina Bishara
7. Rule of Law, Ideology and Human Rights in Egyptian Courts
Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid
8. Islam in Egypt’s Cacophonous Constitutional Order
Nathan J. Brown
9. Surviving under Rule by Law: Explaining Ideological Change in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Bruce K. Rutherford
10. Egypt’s ‘Ulama in the State, in Politics and in the Islamist Vision
Jakob Skovgaard-Peteren
11. Egypt’s Constitutional Revolution?
Nathan J. Brown

Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of several books, including
After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors.
Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author and editor of several books, including
Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government, also published by SUNY Press.