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Original Title: The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic

ISBN: 1860642535

Translator: John O'Kane

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Age Group: Adult

Pages: 336

Weight: 584 g

Dimensions: 15 x 23 x 2.3 cm

Book Cover: Board Books

Genre:

History > Middle East

Subjects:

History & geography > Iran > Iran – Islamic Republic

The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic: English 1998

قانون اساسی ایران: سیاست و دولت در جمهوری اسلامی

Author: Asghar Schirazi

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Chronicling and analyzing political life in Iran since the revolution, this text sets out to demonstrate the gradual transformation of the state from intended theocracy and republic to a hierocracy in which Islam and the shari`a play a subordinate role. The author addresses the major contradictions inherent in the Iranian constitution - between its legalistic and democratic components on the one hand, and between the alleged potential of a legally and ideologically interpreted Islam to resolve social problems and the growing evidence that this Islam is an inadequate legal and political basis for government. He charts the gradual replacement of Islamic legalism with a political practice based centrally on the interests of the state, and points to a growing crisis of the shari`a that will open the way for possible developments of Islam in the future.