Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With Special Reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

Book Overview

This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution-making in the Middle East. The historical background and setting are fully explored in two substantial essays by Linda Darling and Sa d Amir Arjomand, placing the contemporary experience in the contexts, respectively, of the ancient Middle Eastern legal and political tradition and of the nineteenth and twentieth century legal codification and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841137731
• ISBN13: 9781841137735
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"