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The Impossible State

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Impossible State

By Wael B. Hallaq

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About the book

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 modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting sole...Show more

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9780231162579

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Columbia University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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The Impossible State

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