Vol. 1 No. 004 (2013): Issue 004

غلاف العدد 4 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 4 of Tabayyun (2013) includes the following studies and articles: “Managing Religious and Cultural Pluralism in the Rulings of Arab Constitutional Courts and Assemblies” (Antoine Messarra); “Constitutional Design for Divided Societies” (Arend Lijphart); “Egypt on the Threshold of the Second Republic” (Mohammed Taha Aliwa); “The Rule of Law as Enshrined in the Syrian Constitution: An Analysis of the 1973 and 2012 Constitutional Texts” (Faeq Huwaija); “A Reading of Morocco’s New Constitution” (Mohamed el-Maliki); “The 2011 Moroccan Constitution in Light of the Arab Spring: Dialectic of Permanence and Change” (Mohamed al-Ghali); “On the Intellectual and Revolution” (Azmi Bishara); “Cycles of Tolerance” (Mazouz el-Ali); “Religion, Culture and Globalization: Grounds for Dialogue or Division” (Tibi al-Ghomari); “Signs in Thomas Hobbes’ Writings” (Rasoul Mohammed Rasoul); “Civil Society and the Democratic Transition: A Critical Reading” (Nader Kadhim); “The Interpretation of Cultures” (Haitham Ahmad Muzahem); “The Second Annual Conference of Social Sciences and Humanities held by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (Marc” (Editorial Board of Tabayyun); “Shakib Arslan: Two lectures in Damascus (1937)” (Mohammed Kamel al-Khatib); “Jamal al-Din Al-Afghani: His views, his struggle and his impact on the East renaissance (1947)” (Qadri Hafiz Touqan).

Published: 2013-11-01

Studies

  • Managing Religious and Cultural Pluralism in the Rulings of Arab Constitutional Courts and Assemblies

    Author: Antoine Messarra
    07-32

    Focusing on select Arab countries, this study seeks to remove specific constitutional topics from the realm of ideological and political public debate, and place them in a methodical and legal...

  • Constitutional Design for Divided Societies

    Author: Arend Lijphart
    33-44

    Over the past fifty years, democratic constitutional design has undergone a sea change. After the Second World War, newly independent countries tended simply to copy the basic constitutional...

  • Egypt on the Threshold of the Second Republic

    Author: Mohammed Taha Aliwa
    45-68

    The modern Egyptian state, along with the concepts, institutions, and modern administrative apparatus that come with it, is the product of Muhammad Ali Pasha’s dynasty, who ruled Egypt from the...

  • The Rule of Law as Enshrined in the Syrian Constitution: An Analysis of the 1973 and 2012 Constitutional Texts

    Author: Faeq Huwaija
    69-84

    This study examines the extent to which Syria’s permanent constitution, which came into force in 1973, embodies the notion of a state based on the rule of law. By analyzing its 1973 text, the...

  • A Reading of Morocco’s New Constitution

    Author: Mohamed el-Maliki
    85-108

    This study examines the new text of the Moroccan constitution, drafted in 2011, and analyzes both the context in which it arose and its formulation. Underlying this analysis is the premise that...

  • The 2011 Moroccan Constitution in Light of the Arab Spring: Dialectic of Permanence and Change

    Author: Mohamed al-Ghali
    109-124

    Al- Ghali offers an in-depth analysis of Morocco’s constitution in light of the Arab Spring stressing the complex structure of a constitution that balances three key factors: authority, values,...

  • On the Intellectual and Revolution

    Author: Azmi Bishara
    127-142

    Bishara examines terms such as “the intellectual,” “the intelligentsia,” “the organic intellectual,” and “the public intellectual”. He distinguishes between intellectuals and those who are...

  • Cycles of Tolerance

    Author: Mazouz el-Ali
    143-162

    This study investigates the historical and politico-philosophical origins of the rise of “tolerance” in the West. To this end, Abdelali delves into the ecclesiastical root of the word in the...

  • Religion, Culture and Globalization: Grounds for Dialogue or Division

    Author: Tibi al-Ghomari
    163-182

    Examining two schools of thought surrounding the concepts of religion, culture, and globalization, Ghammari investigates the differing standpoints between those who idealize these concepts and...

  • Signs in Thomas Hobbes’ Writings

    Author: Rasoul Mohammed Rasoul
    183-194

    This study addresses the concept of the sign as it appears in the writings of Thomas Hobbes, highlighting the importance the English philosopher attached to it in all of his writings, including...

Discussions

  • Civil Society and the Democratic Transition: A Critical Reading

    Author: Nader Kadhim
    235-346

    Democratic deficit is a term synonymous with democratic intractability, a chronic intractability that cannot be overcome, as demonstrated by the fact that despite the global transformations,...

  • The Interpretation of Cultures

    Author: Haitham Ahmad Muzahem
    247-256

    In the life of the human individual, culture has an effect whose reach cannot be accurately gauged nor denied. Children enter the world without preconceived ideas and without culture. Their...

Reports

  • The Second Annual Conference of Social Sciences and Humanities held by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (Marc

    Author: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
    259-265

    The ACRPS convened the Second Annual Conference for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Doha on 30-31 March, 2013. The two themes of the conference this year, each with separate sessions and...

From the Library

  • Shakib Arslan: Two lectures in Damascus (1937)

    Author: Mohammed Kamel al-Khatib
    197-222

    Shakib Arslan (1870-1946) belongs to a period and generation of intellectuals who witnessed the collapse of the Ottoman-Islamic League and the formation of the period and generation of the idea,...

  • Jamal al-Din Al-Afghani: His views, his struggle and his impact on the East renaissance (1947)

    Author: Qadri Hafiz Touqan
    223-232

    This lecture was delivered at the Sport Literary Club in Nablus, Jerusalem, Gaza, and Lid in memory of the eminent social reformer Jamal al-Din al-Afghani on the fiftieth anniversary of his...