SHARIAsource

Islamic Constitutionalism (SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School) provides a survey instrument codifying the thirty "Islamic clauses”, i.e. those constitutional clauses that make a reference to Islam or having an Islamic underpinning, modeled after The 1978 Al-Azhar Constitution and developed by professors Dawood Ahmed and Moamen Gouda in the 2015 "Measuring Constitutional Islamization: Insights from the Islamic Constitutions Index," Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 38(1), 1-76. The Islamic Constitutions Index (ICI) measures the degree of Islamicity of the Constitutions within the Muslim majority countries.

Islamic Constitution Index (ICI)

Version 2: June 2018

Original Source: Ahmed, D., & Gouda, M. (2015). Measuring Constitutional Islamization: Insights from the Islamic Constitutions Index. Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, 38(1), 1-76.

Methodology

We use The 1978 Al-Azhar Constitution as a model for Islamic Constitutionalism. We read, identified and then extracted every “Islamic” clause from that constitution—that is, every clause that makes some reference to Islam or has some Islamic underpinning. Consequently, we identified 30 such “Islamic clauses” and constructed a survey instrument codifying the clauses. Table 1 presents a list of the 30 questions/clauses that we found to represent the universe of Constitutional Islamization and the corresponding articles in Al-Azhar constitution. These were clauses that had an explicit focus of injecting the constitution with an Islamic feature. Our next step was to use these Islamic clauses as a basis for comparison among the constitution of Islamic countries.