The impossible state : Islam, politics, and modernity's moral predicament /

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 fi...

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Main Author: Hallaq, Wael B., 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
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