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...
| Основен автор: | Hallaq, Wael B., 1955- (Author) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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| Издание: | Paperback edition. |
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Съдържание:
- 1. Premises
- 2. The modern state
- 3. Separation of powers: Rule of law or rule of the state?
- 4. The legal, the political, and the moral
- 5. The political subject and moral technologies of the self
- 6. Beleaguering globalization and moral economy
- 7. The central domain of the moral
- Notes
- Glossary of key terms
- Bibliography
- Index.