헌법(기본법)을 통해 본 오만(Oman)의 국가정체성

State Identity in the Sultanate of Oman’s Basic Law - Focused on Religious Characteristics -

Generally speaking, the national basic law or the constitution manifests political, economic, social and cultural identities of a nation-state and is put on a higher plane than any law in the legal system. Thus, an analysis of it is the first step towards understanding political, economic, social and cultural identities, as well as other aspects of people's lives in a nation-state. Religious and secular identities are both in harmony and intension with each other in the basic law of government (or the constitution) of the nation-states in the Middle Eastern Arab-Islamic region. In order to fathom national identities in the national basic law (or the constitution) in the region, this paper attempts to analyze the national basic law of the Sultanate Oman. In so doing, it endeavors to understand how its unique religious characteristics are reflected in Oman’s Basic Law, and how they regulate the people of the Oman.