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256 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231162562
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 20 November 2012
Description
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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256 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231162562
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 20 November 2012
Description
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...