Sharia State

Bassam Tibi is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations. Between 1973 and 2009 he taught at the University of Goettingen, and he was A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University until 2010. Between 1982 and 2000 Professor Tibi was parallel to Goettingen at Harvard University in a variety of affiliations, the latest of which is the Bosch Fellow of Harvard. His work has been translated into 16 languages, and he has published a great number of books including Islam’s Predicament with Modernity (Routledge, 2009) and Islam, World Politics and Europe (Routledge, 2008). The president of Germany Roman Herzog decorated him in 1995 with the highest Medal/State Decoration for his "bridging between Islam and the West".

• Introduction 1 The Shari'a- State and Western Scholarship: The Reality of an Islamist Shari'atization of Politics that seeks a name 2 The Shari'a-State is not the Faith of Islam: Shari'a and Politics 3 The Challenge of the Islamist Shari'a-State to the International Order: Torn Between the Westphalian Synthesis, Pax Americana and Pax Islamica 4 Shari'a and Islamism in the Arab Spring: From the Promise of a Blossoming Spring to a Frosty and Lethal Winter 5 From Traditional Shari’a Reasoning to the Islamist Shari’atization in Post-Arab Spring 6 Torn Between Combating Prejudice and the Accusation of Islamophobia: The Shari’a-State and Policing Speech in the Debate on Whither Islamic Civilization.