Preface
General Introduction
1. The Middle East Nonviolent Revolution: A philosophical
manifesto
Part I- Revolution
2. Introduction- Nonviolence between order of reasons and decrees
of reality
3. A brief history of nonviolence in the Middle East
4. Shattered political language: Reconstructing a humanist culture
of nonviolence
5. Nonviolence: The central philosophical paradox
6. Conclusion- Rhythms of nonviolence
Part II- Constitutionalism
7. Introduction
8. Caveat: Against Secession
9. Constitutional ruins and unfathomable politics of transition
10. Constitution-writing: LEJFARC's universal template
11. Middle Eastern constitutionalism
12. Conclusion- Constitutionalism and nonviolence
Part III- Justice
13. Introduction- The order of reasons restated
14. 'Dictatorship is a crime against humanity'
15. Middle Eastern precedents and universal trends
16. The pyramid of accountability
17. Justice and nonviolence
18. Coda: on foreign intervention and nonviolence
19. Epilogue-The 2011 Anima
Bibliography
Index
Chibli Mallat is a lawyer and a law professor. He serves as
Presidential Professor of Law and Professor of Law and Politics of
the Middle East at the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University
of Utah. He also holds the EU Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at
Saint Joseph's University in Lebanon. Professor Mallat has taught
law on three continents as: Lecturer in Islamic Law and Director of
the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at SOAS,
University of London; Visiting Professor, and Law and Public
Affairs fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University;
Visiting Professor of Law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished
Senior Fellow at Yale Law
School; and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques; Visiting Professor
of Islamic Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. A prolific author
in Arabic, English, and French, he is Chairman of Right to
Nonviolence, a Middle East-based NGO active in the fields covered
by this book. Amongst his publications are Introduction to Middle
Eastern Law (Oxford, 2007), The Renewal of Islamic Law (Cambridge,
1993), The Middle East into the 21st Century (Reading, 1996),
Democracy in
America (in Arabic, Nahar, Beirut 2001),and Iraq: Guide to Law and
Policy (Boston 2009).
"Chibli Mallat invites us to think about what has been obscured by
the reactionary turn in the ongoing revolutions in the Arab world:
the non-violent origins of the revolts, and the possibilities of
nonviolent action following violent turns. Structured around the
three central themes of revolution, constitutionalism, and justice,
he shows the necessary links between strategies, institutional
arrangements, and the telos of political change. Moving back and
forth
between revolutionary France and the present Middle East, and
between philosophical discourse and constitutional proposals,
Mallat's Philosophy of Nonviolence makes a plea for a
fine-grained
processual analysis to frame these revolutions, whose significance
goes beyond their specific locales to our collective futures. This
inspiring and erudite book deserves a wide readership." -John
Borneman, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
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