Pre-requisite of religiousness stipulated for the presidential candidate according to Egyptian and Algerian legislation : an evaluative study in the light of Islamic law (Shari'a)‎

Abstract EN

The study aimed at evaluating the religiousness pre-requisite stipulated for the presidential candidate according to Egyptian and Algerian Legislation in the light of Islamic Law (Shari'a).

The study used the descriptive methodology to reach the targets in question.

To gather the required data, a review of literature was administered.

The study came to the conclusions that: first the Islamic Law stipulates that the presidential candidate must be religious; second, the Egyptian and the Algerian Constitutions does not explicitly necessitate the presidential candidate to be religious.

However, the Algerian Constitution implicitly necessitates the presidential candidate to be virtuous, unlike the Egyptian Constitution that does not fully meet what Islamic Law requires to be religious.

The study recommended that the Egyptian and Algerian Constitutions ought to explicitly necessitate the presidential candidate to be religious.