The fall and rise of the Islamic state [[electronic resource] /] / Noah Feldman

• Autore: Feldman Noah <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 340.59
• Soggetto topico: Islam and state; Constitutional law (Islamic law); Islamic law - Political aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Islamic countries Politics and government
• Classificazione: 86.14; 11.84
• Note generali: "A Council on Foreign Relations Book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-175) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: What went right? -- Decline and fall -- The rise of the new Islamic state.
• Sommario/riassunto: Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholarship has defined the stakes in the Middle East today. Now, in this incisive book, Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the shari'a--the law of the traditional Islamic state--in the modern Muslim world. Western powers call it a threat to democracy. Islamist movements are winning elections on it. Terrorists use it to justify their crimes. What, the
• Titolo autorizzato: Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
• ISBN: 1-282-15809-0; 9786612158094; 1-4008-2407-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910345102903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II