Can a “Civil” State be Religious? Tunisian Debates
Pouvoirs n°156 - La Tunisie - janvier 2016 - p.55-70
The place of Islam within the Constitution polarised the constitutional debates in Tunisia between 2011 and 2013. In order to overcome incompatibilities between Ennahdha’s constitutional programme, which pro- posed to islamize the institutions and the law, and the proposals of the secular parties, which intended to guarantee a clear separation between the State and religion, the constituents used two main methods. On the one hand, “semantic uncertainty” which meant keeping article 1 of the 1959 Constitution with all its linguistic ambiguities; on the other hand, “conceptual creativity” through the emergence of the new notion of a “civil State” that both camps could appropriate while giving it either convergent or divergent meanings.
Référence électonique : Jean-Philippe BRAS, "Can a “Civil” State be Religious? Tunisian Debates", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°156, 156 - La Tunisie,
p.55-70
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