Constitutions and Pluralism in Muslim States and Societies مقاله

Asifa Quraishi-Landes (University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Not Your Father’s Islamic State: Islamic Constitution alism for Today’s Shari‘ah-Minded Muslims”) presented a structure for Is lamic constitutionalism that is built of legal pluralism rather than legal centralism. David Warren (University of Manchester, “Rethinking Tradition and the Maqāṣidī Turn in Islamic Political Thought: The Tunisian Ennahda Movement between Genealogy, Heritage, and the State”) discussed Ennahda’s recent emphasis on the maqāṣid instead of the Shari‘ah, which is a change. Gianluca Paolo Parolin (The American University in Cairo, “Embracing the Challenge: Religious Discourse Responding to ‘Cit izenship’ Hype”) is interested in the post-9/11 constitutions in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt in terms of how they define citizenship and with a focus on the Egyptian thinker and judge Tariq al-Bishri. Dževada Šuško (Institute for the Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks, “The Relationship of the Islamic Community and the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Recent Ne gotiations for an Agreement to Facilitate the Freedom of Religion for Mus lims”) focused on how the Catholic and Serb Orthodox churches have signed agreements with the state that guarantee their members’ basic human rights, and why the Muslims have failed to do so. Mohd Al Adib Samuri (National University of Malaysia) spoke on “Muslim Judges in Secular Courts: Legal Pluralism in Adjudicating Orders for Child Offenders in Malaysia”) discussed the “Islamization of sec ular law in Malaysia. For example, just how significant is the constitution and are minority rights and pluralism possible in a nation state, especially in a liberal democracy?