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Impossible State
Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
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Artikel-Nr:
9780231162579
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.09.2014
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Wael B. Hallaq
Gewicht:
444 g
Format:
228x151x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Wael Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and has previously taught at McGill University, where he was named a James McGill Professor in Islamic Studies. Hallaqs research spans several fields, including law, legal theory, philosophy, political theory, and logic, and his publications include Sharia: Theory, Practice, Transformations; An Introduction to Islamic Law; and Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law. His works have been translated into several languages, including Arabic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, Turkish, and Russian.
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 modernitys moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting solely on ethical foundations.
In this fascinating work, one of our most influential historians of Islamic law and society draws carefully elaborated and sure-to-be controversial conclusions about the merits of the premodern Islamic worldview and the problems of both modern Western and Islamic political thought. An important and thought-provoking work, it is sure to engender productive debate. -- Clark Lombardi, University of Washington School of Law
Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Premises2. The Modern State3. Separation of Powers: Rule of Law or Rule of the State?4. The Legal5. The Political Subject and Moral Technologies of the Self6. Beleaguering Globalization and Moral Economy7. The Central Domain of the MoralNotesGlossary of Key TermsBibliographyIndex