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The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

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 | #899096 in Books |  imusti |  2014-09-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.94 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

 | Columbia University Press

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Still Reading it but so far it is a very ...|By Yaser|Still Reading it but so far it is a very well written and informative book about both the Modern state and the Islamic state.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good comparative treatment|By Songplayerman|The book is a brief comparison of the role of Sharia i| |This is a bracing, erudite, and compelling account of the moral, political, and structural features of Islamic governance and the modern state, as well as of the multiple incongruities that hamper any attempt to establish one in terms of the other. Wael Hallaq

Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also critiques more expansively modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament   |  Wael Hallaq. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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