Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.
Contents:
Will the shari'a state be the outcome? Arab Spring and the hope for democratization -- The shari'a state and western scholarship: the reality of an Islamist shari'atization of politics that seeks a name -- The shari'a state is not the faith of Islam: shari'a and politics -- The challenge of the Islamist shari'a state to the international order: torn between the Westphalian synthesis, Pax Americana and Pax Islamica -- Shari'a and Islamism in the Arab Spring: from the promise of a blossoming spring to a frosty and lethal winter -- From traditional shari'a reasoning to the Islamist shari'atization in post-Arab Spring -- Torn between combating prejudice and the accusation of Islamophobia: the shari'a state and policing speech in the debate on whither Islamic civilization.
Summary:
"Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, The Shari'a State examines the Islamist concept of political order. This order is based on a new interpretation of shari'a and has been dubbed "the Islamic state" by Islamists. The concept of "the Islamic state," has been elevated to a political agenda and it is this agenda that is examined here. In contrast to the prevailing view which sees the Arab Spring as a revolution, this book argues that the phenomenon has been neither a Spring, nor a revolution. The term 'Arab Spring,' connotes a just rebellion that led to toppling dictators and authoritarian rulers, yet in The Shari'a State, Bassam Tibi challenges the unchecked assumption that the seizure of leadership by Islamists is a part of the democratization of the Middle East." -- Publisher website.
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