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Informationen zum Autor Wael Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and has previously taught at McGill University! where he was named a James McGill Professor in Islamic Studies. Hallaq¿s research spans several fields! including law! legal theory! philosophy! political theory! and logic! and his publications include Shari¿a: Theory! Practice! Transformations; An Introduction to Islamic Law; and Authority! Continuity! and Change in Islamic Law. His works have been translated into several languages! including Arabic! Indonesian! Hebrew! Japanese! Persian! Turkish! and Russian. Klappentext Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the ¿Islamic state!¿ judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents! is both an impossible and inherently self-contradictory concept. Comparing the legal! political! moral! and constitutional histories of pre-modern Islam and Euro-America! he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He then conducts a more expansive critique of 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 it 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 the Muslim state! as Hallaq shows! has done little to advance an acceptable form of genuine Shari¿a governance. Along the way! he proves political and other ¿crises of Islam¿ are not unique to the Islamic world nor to the Muslim religion. These crises are integral to the modern condition of both East and West! and recognizing such parallels enables Muslims to engage more productively with their Western counterparts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Premises2. The Modern State3. Separation of Powers: Rule of Law or Rule of the State?4. The Legal5. The Political Subject and Moral Technologies of the Self6. Beleaguering Globalization and Moral Economy7. The Central Domain of the MoralNotesGlossary of Key TermsBibliographyIndex ...
