Vol. 2 No. 003 (2013): Issue 003

غلاف العدد 3 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 3 of Tabayyun (2013) includes the following studies and articles: “The Ottoman Tanzimat and the Constitution: The Beginnings of Constitutional Thought, Text, Application, and Conceptualizatio” (Wajih Kawtharani); “The 1919-1920 Syrian General Congress and Syria’s First Constitution: Context, Evolution, Functions, and Challenges” (Mohammed Jamal Barout); “The Constitutional Question: The History and Challenges” (Suleiman Takieddine); “The Tunisian Constitution: The Birth and Evolution of an Idea” (Omar Boubakri); “The Press and the Constitutional Question in Morocco prior to the French Protectorate in 1912” (Yahia Boulahia); “Egypt’s 1923 Constitution: A Constitution of National Unity” (Aly Afify Aly Ghazi); ““The People Demand the Execution of Lawyers”: Al-Sanhuri, Between Law and Revolution (1952-1954)” (Amr al-Shalaqani); “Azmi Bishara’s Vision for an Arab Democratic Transition: A Comparative Study on the Conditions Required for Democracy” (Suhail Lahbib); “Wasatiyah and Fiqh in the Islamic State: A Critical Reading” (Mu’taz al-Khatib); “Islamists in a State of Transition: A Case Study of Morocco’s Justice and Development Party” (Mohamed Jabroun); “The Aftermath of the Arab Revolutions: Religious Reform and Secularism” (Kamal Abdellatif); “The Ikhwan al-Safa and the Question of the Plurality of Opinions and Doctrines in their Age: Reasons for Human Differences a” (Walid Noueihed); “Making Shura Part of the Constitution: Means and Problems” (Abdelhakim Aboulloz); “The Creation of Modern Iraq: The Dialectic of Society and Culture” (Samir Abdel-Rasoul al-Obeidi); “On the Pornography Industry in America: The Hegemony of Nudity” (Malek Wannous); “Report on the Seminar: “The Egyptian Constitution and the Transitional Phase Toward Democracy” November 24, Doha” (Editorial Board of Tabayyun); “Preamble to the Ottoman Constitution of 1876: Translation of the Basic Law (Kanun-i Esasi)” (Editorial Board of Tabayyun); “Women in the Syrian Congress: Minutes of the Session of the Congress that Debated Women's Right to Vote (1920)” (Editorial Board of Tabayyun); “The Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences: Constitution and Constitutionalism” (Thaer Deeb).

Published: 2013-08-01

Studies

  • The Ottoman Tanzimat and the Constitution: The Beginnings of Constitutional Thought, Text, Application, and Conceptualizatio

    Author: Wajih Kawtharani
    7-22

    This study is rooted in the multiple and varied contexts in which the Ottomans were compelled to adopt the Tanzimat, alluding to the series of reforms adopted by the Ottoman Empire in the 19th...

  • The 1919-1920 Syrian General Congress and Syria’s First Constitution: Context, Evolution, Functions, and Challenges

    Author: Mohammed Jamal Barout
    23-48

    During its three sessions held in 1919 and 1920, the Syrian Congress constitutionally represented the population of Syria, giving voice to the socio-political changes then underway. Political...

  • The Constitutional Question: The History and Challenges

    Author: Suleiman Takieddine
    49-73

    This study begins with a cursory look at the Arab scene, focusing on the ongoing constitutional debates and its controversies gripping the region today. In examining the current state of affairs...

  • The Tunisian Constitution: The Birth and Evolution of an Idea

    Author: Omar Boubakri
    75-86

    This study examines the circumstances in which the idea of a constitution arose and developed in Tunisia. The author here examines the factors behind its evolution and the intellectual,...

  • The Press and the Constitutional Question in Morocco prior to the French Protectorate in 1912

    Author: Yahia Boulahia
    87-108

    This study examines the emergence of constitutional thought in Morocco, beginning with its earliest developments at the turn of the 20th century. At the time, cultural elites from the Arab...

  • Egypt’s 1923 Constitution: A Constitution of National Unity

    Author: Aly Afify Aly Ghazi
    109-122

    The 1923 Egyptian constitution was the first democratic constitution in Egypt, the first pillar of the nascent parliamentary system, and an important step on the path toward political and...

  • “The People Demand the Execution of Lawyers”: Al-Sanhuri, Between Law and Revolution (1952-1954)

    Author: Amr al-Shalaqani
    123-140

    During the March 1954 crisis in Egypt, legal scholar Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri was deemed a hero for defending the democratic political current and demanding, along with the groups supporting...

  • Azmi Bishara’s Vision for an Arab Democratic Transition: A Comparative Study on the Conditions Required for Democracy

    Author: Suhail Lahbib
    143-166

    Relying on Azmi Bishara’s writings on democracy, and using the case studies of Libya and Tunisia, the author constructs a theoretical concept on the conditions required to instill democracy or –...

  • Wasatiyah and Fiqh in the Islamic State: A Critical Reading

    Author: Mu’taz al-Khatib
    167-192

    This paper examines the notion of the Islamic State and explores the development of thought surrounding its conceptualization within the discourse of Islamic Wasatiyah. The author seeks to...

  • Islamists in a State of Transition: A Case Study of Morocco’s Justice and Development Party

    Author: Mohamed Jabroun
    193-208

    The revolutions of the Arab Spring have incited key intellectual and political movements in the Arab world, deeply influencing the state of Arab affairs and prompting these movements, including...

  • The Aftermath of the Arab Revolutions: Religious Reform and Secularism

    Author: Kamal Abdellatif
    209-228

    This study examines the key developments emerging in the aftermath of the Arab revolutions, with a specific focus on the democratic project, religious reform, and secularism. The study is also...

Discussions

  • The Ikhwan al-Safa and the Question of the Plurality of Opinions and Doctrines in their Age: Reasons for Human Differences a

    Author: Walid Noueihed
    261-282

    In the fourth century AH/tenth century AD the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safa spread. Book dealers had them copied and sold and distributed them in bookshops and the streets. At that time the...

  • Making Shura Part of the Constitution: Means and Problems

    Author: Abdelhakim Aboulloz
    283-288

    In his book "General Freedoms in the Islamic State" and contrary to usual writings on the subject, Rached Ghannouchi divides his approach to the concept of democracy into two stages: one in...

  • The Creation of Modern Iraq: The Dialectic of Society and Culture

    Author: Samir Abdel-Rasoul al-Obeidi
    289-294

    This book by Mohammed Jabbar Ibrahim al-Jammalis probably the first serious study on the developments of the social and economic structure and its effect on modern Iraqi political thought. The...

  • On the Pornography Industry in America: The Hegemony of Nudity

    Author: Malek Wannous
    295-300

    There is a new industry alongside the others by means of which the ruling class in America controls US society and many societies around the world to varying degrees and in various forms. This...

Reports

  • Report on the Seminar: “The Egyptian Constitution and the Transitional Phase Toward Democracy” November 24, Doha

    Author: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
    303-314

    The ACRPS held a seminar, "The Egyptian Constitution and the Transitional Phase Toward Democracy" on November 24, 2012 in Doha. The event was attended by a group of Egyptian academics and...

From the Library

  • Preamble to the Ottoman Constitution of 1876: Translation of the Basic Law (Kanun-i Esasi)

    Author: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
    231-240

    "The power of the government acts to preserve its reasonable and legitimate rights and to prevent illegitimate movements, by which I mean the prevention and removal of sins and abuses arising...

  • Women in the Syrian Congress: Minutes of the Session of the Congress that Debated Women's Right to Vote (1920)

    Author: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
    241-248

    The most important debate that took place at the Syrian Congress and that was a sign of the social and spiritual condition of the whole country was the debate that began the day before yesterday...

  • The Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences: Constitution and Constitutionalism

    Author: Thaer Deeb
    249-258

    Constitution and Constitutionalism: The Basic Law or set of fundamental rules and principles that govern a polity. In most countries, these rules are recorded in a single written document (the...