Consult them in the matter : a nineteenth-century Islamic argument for constitutional government : the muqaddima (introduction) to Ithaf ahl al-zaman bi akhbar muluk Tunis wa ʻahd al-aman (Presenting contemporaries the history of the rulers of Tunis and the fundamental pact) / by Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf ; translated from the Arabic with introduction and notes by L. Carl Brown.