Citizenship in the Arab World
Kin, Religion and Nation-State
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
The result of five years of intensive research on citizenship in the Arab world, this volume uses the multidisciplinary approach of comparative legal studies in order to consider the multifaceted reality of nationality and citizenship. Gianluca P. Parolin brings together methodologies from fields as diverse as anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and political science, while exploring a broad range of Western and Arab references accessed in their original languages and sources, making in-text references and contemporary Arab legislation accessible for the general reader.
Preface by Rainer Bauböck
Foreword by Gerard-René de Groot
Romanisation system and acknowledgements
Introduction
Basic constituents of citizenship
Classical models and early East-West contacts
Different civilisational paths
Arab terminology
Subject, membership and rights in the Arab world
Chapter One – Membership in the kin group
§1. Representing the social prism
§2. Inclusion through kinship, clientage or slavery
§3. Severance from the group
§4. Customary law
§5. Private justice and arbitration
§6. The chieftain and the assembly
Chapter Two – Membership in the religious community
§1. The formation of the Islamic community
§2. Forms of membership in the Islamic community
§2.1. Muslims
§2.2. Non-Muslims
§3. Partition from the Islamic community
§3.1. Muslim sects
§3.2. Collective apostasy
§3.3. Individual apostasy
§4. Characters of the confessional system
§4.1. Personality of Islamic law
§4.2. Jurisdiction of the Islamic judge
§4.3. Status of non-Muslims in the dar al-islam
§5. Islam and the kin group
§5.1. Planning newly founded cities
§5.2. Status of non-Arab neo-converts (mawlàs)
§5.3. The principle of wedding adequacy (kafa’ah)
§5.4. Restriction of the caliphate to Quraish kinsmen
§6. Islam and Arabness
§6.1. Koranic prescriptions and early Islam
§6.2. The first Shu‘ubiyah
§6.3. Other opposition movements to Arab dominance
Chapter Three – Membership in the nation-state
§1. The emergence of nation-states and nationality
§1.1. Ottoman decline
§1.1.1. Capitulations (imtiyazat)
§1.1.2. Tanzimat and Ottoman nationality
§1.1.3. Imperial provinces and indigenous nationality
§1.2. Ottoman dismemberment
§1.3. Peace treaties and nationality of detached territories
§1.4. The French model
§1.5. Independent states and nat
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