A critical study reveals the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the traditional Islamic state in the modern Muslim world and provides a sweeping history of the traditional Islamic constitution, examining the various provisions of the shari'a and arguing for the creat[...]

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 [...]