International Law, Secularism, and the Islamic World
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INTERNATIONAL LAW, SECULARISM, AND
THE ISLAMIC WORLD
ADRIEN KATHERINE WING*
IN TR O D U CTIO N ........................................................................... 407
I. GLOBAL CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM .................................. 409
II. FUNDAMENTALISM IN THE MUSLIM/ARAB WORLD .... 414
III. A WESTERN EXAMPLE: FRANCE ....................................... 418
IV. THREE EXAMPLES FROM THE MUSLIM/ARAB
W O R L D ..................................................................................... 420
A . T U RK EY ................................................................................. 420
B . T UN ISIA .................................................................................. 422
C . PA LESTIN E ............................................................................. 424
V . P R A X IS ...................................................................................... 425
C O N C LU SIO N ............................................................................... 427
INTRODUCTION
After September 11, 2001, many Americans became vitally
interested in the Middle East. 1 In this Age of the War against Terror,
* Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean
for Faculty Development, University of Iowa College of Law. J.D., Stanford Law
School, 1982; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1979; A.B., Princeton
University, 1978. Dean Wing delivered the first annual ILSP international law
lecture at American University Law School on October 4, 2007. The author was a
consultant specialist for the United States Department of State in 2001 and assisted
the Rwandan Constitutional Commission in developing a post-genocide
constitution. She was an independent contractor, hired by the State University of
New York at Albany, who assisted the Palestinian Legislative Count draft a
constitution for an autonomous Palestine during 1996. She was also an advisor to
the African National Congress (South Africa) Constitutional Committee from 1991
to 1994. Many thanks to research assistants Saba Baig, Kevin Dawson, Ataftna
Essama, Meredith Friedman, Elizabeth He, Cynthia Lockett, and Peter Nadimi.
1. Cf. J. H. Crawford, The Terrorist Attacks of ]] September 2001, Sept. 26,
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