Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

Name: Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
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ISBN: 9780691156248

ISBN-10: 0691156247

ISBN-13: 9780691156248

Edition: 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Noah Feldman

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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, then, is the shari'a? Given the severity of some of its provisions, why is it popular among Muslims? Can…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.46" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Noah Feldman is Associate Professor of Law at New York University and, in 2003, was Senior Constitutional Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He is the author of After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003).



Introduction



What Went Right?



Decline and Fall



The Rise of the New Islamic State


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index