Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-236) and index.
Will the shariʻa-state be the outcome? Arab Spring and the hope for democratization -- The shariʻa-state and western scholarship. the reality of an Islamist shariʻatization of politics that seeks a name -- The shariʻa-state is not the faith of Islam: shariʻa and politics -- The challenge of the Islamist shariʻa- state to the international order: torn between the Westphalian synthesis, Pax Americana and Pax Islamica -- Shariʻa and Islamism in the Arab Spring: from the promise of a blossoming spring to a frosty and lethal winter -- From traditional shariʻa reasoning to the Islamist shariʻatization in post-Arab Spring -- Torn between combating prejudice and the accusation of Islamophobia: the shariʻa-state and policing speech in the debate on whither Islamic civilization.
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"Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, The Sharia State examines the Islamist concept of political order. This order is based on a new interpretation of sharia 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 Sharia 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.