The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament by Wael B. Hallaq

The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

Wael B. Hallaq

256 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging reflective slow-paced
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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...

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