Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
by
Wael Hallaq
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
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...