TY - BOOK AU - Grote,Rainer AU - Roder,Tilmann J TI - Constitutionalism in Islamic countries: between upheaval and continuity SN - 9780190259921 AV - KMC524 .C68 2012 U1 - 340.59 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Oxford University Press KW - Constitutional law KW - Islamic countries KW - Constitutional law (Islamic law) KW - Law KW - Islamic influences N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This volume examines the question of whether something similar to an 'Islamic constitutionalism' has emerged out of the political and constitutional upheaval witnessed in many parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Southern Asia in order to identify its defining features and to assess the challenges it poses to established concepts of constitutionalism. This book offers an integrated analysis of the constitutional experience of Islamic countries, drawing on the methods and insights of comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, international law, and legal history UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199759880.001.0001 ER -