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The caliphate of man : popular sovereignty in modern Islamic thought /

The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed. In Turkey they have descended into authoritarianism. In Tunisia they govern but without the label of "political Islam." Andrew March explores how, before this crisis, Islamists developed a uniqu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: March, Andrew F., 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface: "The people wills ..."
  • The idea of Islamic democracy
  • The question of sovereignty in classical Islamic political thought
  • The crisis of the caliphate and the end of classical Islamic political theory
  • The sovereignty of God and the caliphate of man
  • The law we would give ourselves
  • A sovereign umma and a living sharīʻa
  • After Islamic democracy, after sovereignty.