دانلود کتاب The Sharia State: Arab Spring and Democratization

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Will the shari’a state be the outcome?
The Arab Spring and the hope for democratization
Beyond obsessions and Western wishful thinking
What do Islamists want? Epistemology employed in the search for an answer
About this book
Major themes and core assumptions
Structure and outline
Intended readership and overview of the field
And finally
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1.
The shari’a state and Western scholarship: the reality of
the Islamist shari’atization of politics that seeks a name
Terms, confusions and the trajectory of the argument
The facts: traditional shari’a is not about governance!
The prevailing narrative: the distorted understanding of Islamism
in US Islamic studies
Misconceptions regarding the return of the sacred to politics
Confusion among scholars: a representative debate
Islam, Islamism and violence: the need for a realistic understanding
Islamism’s core issue: the shari’a state
Conclusions: the need for an Islamic enlightenment against the obstacles impeding a critique of the shari’a state
2.
The shari’a state is not the faith of Islam: shari’a and politics
Shari’a between faith and political abuse: the confusion between shari’a and fiqh
The invention of shari’a as a constitution for the Islamic state
The return of the sacred as an Islamist shari’a
Why is the return of shari’a law to politics a challenge?
Shari’a law and democratic rights
The hypothesis of shari’atization of Islam as an obstacle to democratization
Universality of law: the tensions between the shari’atization of Islam and constitutionalism in international law
A plea for a reformed Islamic shari’a law in the pursuit of a universal cosmopolitan law
Conclusions: shari’atized Islam is not a democratic
constitutionalism
3. The challenge of the Islamist shari’a state to international order:
torn between the Westphalian synthesis, Pax Americana and Pax Islamica
Enlightened Muslim thought in an ‘enlightened turn’ on religion and political order
Great confusions of Islamic orders: the caliphate, pan-Islamism,
and Islamist internationalism in the context of a new world order
Is the order of a din-wa-dawla Islamocracy an Islamic democracy compatible with democratic world peace?
An outline of the major issues: religious faith and religionized politics
Is institutional Islamism a moderation? Or is it a variant of religious fundamentalism?
The world view and ideology of Islamism: origins
The Islamicate: torn between incorporation into the Westphalian synthesis and the vision of a Pax Islamica
Bottom line: the Westphalian synthesis is not Pax Americana
Islamism and the Western triumphalism of ‘the end of history’
Conclusions: which world order? The Westphalian synthesis, Pax Americana and political Islam in competition. The need for a democratic world peace
4. Shari’a and Islamism in the ‘Arab Spring’:
from the promise of a blossoming spring to a frosty and lethal winter
Was the uprising really a spring?
Pertinent questions about the Arab Spring
Islamist regional state actors and the US in the Arab Spring
Back to the exemplary case: Egypt
Western wishful thinking about an ‘Arab Spring’ confronted with non-Islamist Arab critical reasoning
The sectarian case of Syria and its coverage in the Western media
Why write this book after leaving the stage? Confessions of a Sunni native of Damascus
Sunnis and Alawis killing one another in Syria: the lethal season
of 2012 is no spring
The precarious balance of the Arab Spring: the cases of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya
A preliminary assessment
‘People ignore predictions they dislike’
Islamism and the abuse of democratization in a claim to moderation
The policy choices: between engagement and empowerment
Whither the Arab Spring? Trends and some future prospects
Conclusions
5.
From traditional shari’a reasoning to Islamist shari’atization of politics in the post-Arab Spring
The ‘implementation of shari’a’ slogan in politics
Islam and the tradition of shari’a reasoning
The tradition of classical shari’a doctrine in the light of contemporary realities
Alternatives to shari’a reasoning in Islamic civilization
The return of shari’a reasoning in an invention of tradition
An important excursus: shari’a reasoning in the Islamic diaspora in Europe
Conclusions: Islamist shari’a vs. the Arab Spring
6. Torn between combating prejudice and the accusation of Islamophobia:
the shari’a state and policing speech in the debate ‘Whither Islamic civilization?’
No to a culture of imposing limitations
The accusation of Orientalism and Islamophobia in the war of ideas
The failure to understand Islamism as a venture for a shari’a state
Features of the prevailing narrative in Islamic studies in the West
Beyond the obsession with Islamophobia: Islamology as a study of Islamism and global conflict
From one accusation to the next: the switch from ‘Orientalism’ to ‘Islamophobia’
The debate on: whither Islamic civilization? The legitimacy of criticism vs. accusations and prejudice
Conclusions: the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Between the fragmentation of humanity and the ‘violence of false unity and forced coherence’
Notes
Index