Abdelillah Belkeziz is Professor of Philosophy at Hasan II University in Morocco. He is the author of several books, including The Formation of Political Islam: The Prophetic and Politics (2005) and Arabs and Modernity: A Study in the Discourse of Modernists (2007).

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• Preface to the English Language EditionPrefacePart One: From the Nation State to the State of the KhalifaChapter 1: The State of the ‘Tanzimat’ or the State of Reason and al-Shar‘ (Islamic Law)Chapter 2: For the Sake of the Nation State: A Criticism of Political and Religious AuthorityChapter 3: The Conditional State: The Constitutional Question in Modern Shi‘ite Political FiqhChapter 4: From the Nation State to the State of the Khilafah: Renewal of ‘Islamic Legal Politics’Chapter 5: On the Theoretical Criticism of the KhilafahPart Two: From the Islamic State to the Religious StateChapter 6: On the ‘Islamic State’: Religious and Political AspectsChapter 7: The State and al-Shari‘ah in the Criticism of the Secular IdeaChapter 8: Al-Shura and Democracy: Connection and DisjunctureChapter 9: Pseudo-Theocracy in the Rule of Allah: ‘al-Hakimiyah’Chapter 10: Pseudo-Theocracy: On the ‘Wilayat al-Faqih’Chapter 11: On the Criticism of ‘Divine Right’Chapter 12: Is There a Contemporary Islamic Thought?Epilogue

Abdelillah Belkeziz is Professor of Philosophy at Hasan II University in Morocco. He is the author of several books, including The Formation of Political Islam: The Prophetic and Politics (2005) and Arabs and Modernity: A Study in the Discourse of Modernists (2007).

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• Preface to the English Language EditionPrefacePart One: From the Nation State to the State of the KhalifaChapter 1: The State of the ‘Tanzimat’ or the State of Reason and al-Shar‘ (Islamic Law)Chapter 2: For the Sake of the Nation State: A Criticism of Political and Religious AuthorityChapter 3: The Conditional State: The Constitutional Question in Modern Shi‘ite Political FiqhChapter 4: From the Nation State to the State of the Khilafah: Renewal of ‘Islamic Legal Politics’Chapter 5: On the Theoretical Criticism of the KhilafahPart Two: From the Islamic State to the Religious StateChapter 6: On the ‘Islamic State’: Religious and Political AspectsChapter 7: The State and al-Shari‘ah in the Criticism of the Secular IdeaChapter 8: Al-Shura and Democracy: Connection and DisjunctureChapter 9: Pseudo-Theocracy in the Rule of Allah: ‘al-Hakimiyah’Chapter 10: Pseudo-Theocracy: On the ‘Wilayat al-Faqih’Chapter 11: On the Criticism of ‘Divine Right’Chapter 12: Is There a Contemporary Islamic Thought?Epilogue

Abdelillah Belkeziz is Professor of Philosophy at Hasan II University in Morocco. He is the author of several books, including The Formation of Political Islam: The Prophetic and Politics (2005) and Arabs and Modernity: A Study in the Discourse of Modernists (2007).

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• Preface to the English Language EditionPrefacePart One: From the Nation State to the State of the KhalifaChapter 1: The State of the ‘Tanzimat’ or the State of Reason and al-Shar‘ (Islamic Law)Chapter 2: For the Sake of the Nation State: A Criticism of Political and Religious AuthorityChapter 3: The Conditional State: The Constitutional Question in Modern Shi‘ite Political FiqhChapter 4: From the Nation State to the State of the Khilafah: Renewal of ‘Islamic Legal Politics’Chapter 5: On the Theoretical Criticism of the KhilafahPart Two: From the Islamic State to the Religious StateChapter 6: On the ‘Islamic State’: Religious and Political AspectsChapter 7: The State and al-Shari‘ah in the Criticism of the Secular IdeaChapter 8: Al-Shura and Democracy: Connection and DisjunctureChapter 9: Pseudo-Theocracy in the Rule of Allah: ‘al-Hakimiyah’Chapter 10: Pseudo-Theocracy: On the ‘Wilayat al-Faqih’Chapter 11: On the Criticism of ‘Divine Right’Chapter 12: Is There a Contemporary Islamic Thought?Epilogue