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The Arab spring and Islamic legal thought

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  • Leonid Sykiainen

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

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At the end of 2010 there was series of political crises in the Arab world and this period came to be known as “the Arab Spring”. Islam has played a significant role in these events. In certain countries overthrowing the existing regimes resulted in Islamic governments coming to power. A number of aspects of the Arab Spring attracted the attention of contemporary Islamic legal thought. Its different schools diverge in the assessment of the mass protests. Islamic jurisprudence explains the “fiqh of revolution” which justifies the demonstrations and protests against the regime from a Sharia-based point of view

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  • Leonid Sykiainen, 2013. "The Arab spring and Islamic legal thought," HSE Working papers WP BRP 17/LAW/2013, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hig:wpaper:17/law/2013
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    “the Arab Spring”; Islam; political reforms; Sharia; demonstrations; innovation; “fiqh of revolution”;
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    • K30 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - General

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