"Asia and Africa today"
- is a scientificl monthly journal (in Russian)
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Included in Russian Science Citation Index on
WoS platform, and EBSCO Publishing.
ISSN 0321-5075. Published since July 1957.

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2005 IRAQI CONSTITUTION AND THE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM

© 2020 A. IVANOV

DOI:

Aleksandr V. IVANOV, PhD (History), Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

 

Abstract, The article analyses constitutional provisions of the Republic of Iraq (2005) referring to Sharia and Islam in general. It offers a comparative analysis of the present Constitution and the previous one (1970). It is demonstrated that there are virtually no significant places for Sharia and Islam in the 1970 Constitution.

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Keywords: Iraq, constitution, Sharia, Islam, Shia, Sunni, democracy

The Republic of Iraq has made a significant way in its constitutional development. Its first constitution was adopted in 1924………………………..

From the declaration of the Republic in 1958 and up till 2003 Iraq was governed by military officers who used tough authoritarian methods. They blocked creation of real representative democratic bodies to prevent emergence and organizational structuring of real opposition to their power [7, p. 44]…………….

There are a few Mandaeism followers in the south of Iraq (about 10,000) [14]. The rest of the population follow various Christian confessions and Churches [5, pp. 142-143]………………………………………………………

                     Drafting of the Constitution 2005

The administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq Paul Bremer produced a tough resistance to the attempts to include Islamic principles in any project of future Constitution [16].

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References

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  2. The Constitution of the Republic of Iraq, 1970 (In Arab.). http://iraqja.iq/view.81/ (accessed 02.19)
  3. Backer L.C. Theocratic Constitutionalism: An Introduction to a New Global Legal Ordering. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. 2009. № 1.
  4. Katzman K. Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution. Washington, DC. 2006.
  5. Rabb I.A. We the Jurists: Islamic Constitutionalism in Iraq. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. 2007. № 3.
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