TY - BOOK AU - Virgili,Tommaso TI - Islam, constitutional law, and human rights: sexual minorities and freethinkers in Egypt and Tunisia T2 - Comparative constitutionalism in Muslim majority states SN - 9780429535093 U1 - 340.59 PY - 2022/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Constitutional law (Islamic law) KW - Civil rights (Islamic law) KW - Constitutional law KW - Egypt KW - Tunisia KW - Civil rights KW - LAW / General KW - bisacsh KW - LAW / Civil Rights KW - LAW / Comparative N1 - Introduction -- Constitutionalism and Islam -- The Islamic conception of individual liberties -- What "sharia" in a constitution concretely means : the case of Egypt -- Islamic law in post-Arab spring Egyptian constitutions -- Compromises and ambiguities in the 2014 Tunisian constitution -- Introduction to the case studies -- (Il)legal persecution of freethinkers -- (Il)legal persecution of sexual minorities -- Constitutional and international freedoms -- Conclusions -- Constitutions and individual freedom: the unbreakable bond N2 - "This book explores how Islam, its laws and principles, affects individual liberties. It focuses on the constitutions of Tunisia and Egypt, two countries which have experienced at least partial democracy following the Arab Spring. The work examines a number of sensitive topics from an Islamic perspective, and concludes with two specific case studies in the concerned countries"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429259418 ER -