The Legal Status of Religious Minorities

Imāmī Shī'ī Law and Iran's Constitutional Revolution

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12192580
AutoresDaniel Tsadik (autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen10
Número3
Páginas376-408
Fecha de publicación2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIslamic Law and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0928-9380 • E-ISSN: 1568-5195
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156851903770227593
OpenAlexW1997852050
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

This study investigates the extent to which the laws of Iran's Constitutional Revolution mark a break with Islam with regard to the legal status of religious minorities as reflected in the writings of some eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Imāmī Shī ī ulamā . Whereas Shī ī law usually treated religious minorities and Shī īs differentially, some—but not all—of the Revolutionary enactments treat religious minorities as the equals of Muslims. I conclude that the legal status of some religious minorities improved only somewhat during the Revolution as compared to their status under Shī ī law. The two-faced nature of the Revolution's enactments echoes the rival forces at work. The controversy over whether religious minorities should be treated as equals was legal in nature, but no less a dispute over the orientation of Iranian society

Islam · Legal status · Political science · Politics · Religious freedom · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions

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