Further to my earlier post, here’s a more accurate assessment of what is at stake for women in the matter of personal status law and role of Islam in the constitution. If it turns out on Monday that the “fundamentalists” have won this particular debate (and remember, if it were inevitable it would have happened on 8/15, yes?), then the next question is about the structure of the judiciary and procedures for judicial appointments, I imagine. There’s some discussion of the role of Islam in the current provisional Iraqi Constitution here. (Link found at islamicfeminist).