1st Edition
Islam, Constitutional Law and Human Rights Sexual Minorities And Freethinkers In Egypt And Tunisia
Foreword, Brian Whitaker
Chapter I Constitutionalism And Islam
Chapter II The Islamic Conception Of Individual Liberties
Chapter III What "ShariᶜA" In A Constitution Concretely Means: The Case Of Egypt
Chapter IV Islamic Law In Post-Arab Spring Egyptian Constitutions
Chapter V Compromises And Ambiguities In The 2014 Tunisian Constitution
Chapter VI (Il)Legal Persecution Of Freethinkers
Final Reflections On Egyptian And Tunisian Freethinkers: Public Order And Fitna
Chapter VII (Il)Legal Persecution Of Sexual Minorities
Chapter VIII Constitutional And International Freedoms
Conclusions Constitutions And Individual Freedom: The Unbreakable Bond
Biography
Tommaso Virgili is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where he works on modernization movements and reform theology within Islam in response to the challenge of fundamentalism, with a focus on Europe and the MENA region. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Public Law from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. Dr. Virgili is also a Research Associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and a Visiting Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels.
