Hallaq’s Challenge
Wael Hallaq, a leading western scholar of Islamic law, throws down the gauntlet in this daring book, challenging not only Orientalist distortions of Islam but also turning the tables on modernity, the ubiquitous and ineluctable paradigm that informs nearly all thinking, Muslim and non-Muslim...
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International Institute of Islamic Thought
2013
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| Résumé: | Wael Hallaq, a leading western scholar of Islamic law, throws
down the gauntlet in this daring book, challenging not only Orientalist
distortions of Islam but also turning the tables on modernity,
the ubiquitous and ineluctable paradigm that informs nearly all
thinking, Muslim and non-Muslim, about the Shari‘ah. An Islamic
state is impossible, Hallaq contends, not because the Shari‘ah is
undesirable, but because the modern state is inherently contradictory
to Islam’s metaphysics as well as its historical manifestation
as the Shari‘ah. Today’s economic and environmental cataclysms
make it urgent, he insists, to recover the moral universe of the
Shari‘ah and to do so in conversation with other erstwhile and
growing western critiques of modernity.
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