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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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Premises
- The modern state
- Separation of powers: rule of law or rule of the state?
- The legal, the political, and the moral
- The political subject and moral technologies of the self
- Beleaguering globalization and moral economy
- The central domain of the moral.
