Islam, constitutional law and human rights : sexual minorities and freethinkers in Egypt and Tunisia / Tommaso Virgili

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Tommaso Virgili is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where he works on modernization movements and reform theology within Islam in response to the challenge of fundamentalism, with a focus on Islam in Europe and the countries of the Islamic world. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Public Law from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shariᶜa and the Islamic ethos. The analysis goes from general to particular, starting with a theoretical overview on constitutionalism, human rights and Islam, moving to the assessment of the post-Arab Spring Constitutions of Egypt and Tunisia, and concluding with a specific focus on the rights of sexual minorities and freethinkers