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The Impossible State

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  • Author: Wael Hallaq
  • ASIN: B00AND9DJI
  • ISBN: 023116257X
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AND9DJI
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beginning in the nineteenth century, and at the hands of colonialist Europe, the socioeconomic and political system regulated by the Sharīʿa was structurally dismantled, which is to say that the Sharīʿa itself was eviscerated, reduced to providing no more than the raw materials for the legislation of personal status by the modern state. — location: 59 ^ref-7528

form of Islamic governance comes into existence. We then argue that modern forms of globalization and the position of the state in the ever increasing intensity of these forms are sufficient to render any brand of Islamic governance either impossible or, if possible, incapable of survival in the long run. — location: 134 ^ref-32137

they are material and physical. Indeed, looking closely at the internal moral critiques within Western postmodernity, we find close parallels, even a virtual identity, between them and the latent meanings of the modern Muslim call for the establishment of Islamic governance. — location: 145 ^ref-15006

Protection of religion (dīn) is promoted by what we called technologies of the self37 as well as through the laws of jihād and ridda (apostasy), amounting, respectively, to defending the rights of Muslims against outside threat — location: 3204 ^ref-62755

I have already argued, our attitude to and dealings with this natural world is the measure of our existence, of our estimation of what it means for us to be human beings. — location: 3503 ^ref-17155

Worthwhile things to call out. Landa's Essay on Aroma and Shadow deals with this better