The Sharia state :

Tibi, Bassam.

The Sharia state : Arab Spring and democratization / Bassam Tibi. - Oxon ; New York : Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. - xiv, 242 p. ; 24 cm.

Index : p. 237-242.

Bibliography : p. [211]-236.

Will the sharia-state be the outcome? Arab Spring and the hope for democratization -- The sharia-state and western scholarship. the reality of an Islamist shariatization of politics that seeks a name -- The sharia-state is not the faith of Islam: sharia and politics -- The challenge of the Islamist sharia- state to the international order: torn between the Westphalian synthesis, Pax Americana and Pax Islamica -- Sharia and Islamism in the Arab Spring: from the promise of a blossoming spring to a frosty and lethal winter -- From traditional sharia reasoning to the Islamist shariatization in post-Arab Spring -- Torn between combating prejudice and the accusation of Islamophobia: the sharia-state and policing speech in the debate on whither Islamic civilization.

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Islam and state--Arab countries.
Arab Spring, 2010-
Islamic law--Political aspects.
Democracy--Arab countries





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