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Paperback / softback. New. 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 solely on ethical foundations. The modern state not only suffers from serious legal, political, and constitutional issues, Hallaq argues, but also, by its very nature, fashions a subject inconsistent with what it means to be, or to live as, a Muslim. By Islamic standards, the state's technologies of the self are severely lacking in moral substance, and today's Islamic state, as Hallaq shows, has done little to advance an acceptable form of genuine…
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Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament Paperback - 2014
by Wael Hallaq
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- Title Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
- Author Wael Hallaq
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2014-09-16
- Features Bibliography, Glossary
- ISBN 9780231162579 / 023116257X
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Islamic Studies
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Dewey Decimal Code 297.272
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