The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament james baldwin introduced the now-famous expression of

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this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt

The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament james baldwin introduced the now-famous expression ofThis is a bracing, erudite, and compelling account of the moral, political, and structural features of Islamic governance and the modern state, as well as of the multiple incongruities that hamper any attempt to establish one in terms of the other. Wael Hallaq delivers a welcome rejoinder to much of the dogmatic bluster swirling around the subject of shari'a and the Islamic state. At the same time, he brings into sharp focus the often overlooked