{"title":"Wael Hallaq","description":"\u003cp\u003eWael Hallaq’s works engage deeply with themes of law, politics, and philosophy within the modern and historical Islamic context. His writings challenge conventional perspectives, offering critical examinations of power structures and the intellectual legacies that shape contemporary political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a thoughtful exploration of complex ideas surrounding governance, identity, and Orientalism, presented with rigorous scholarship and insightful analysis. Hallaq’s books invite a reconsideration of established narratives in \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"radical-separation-of-powers-by-wael-hallaq-9781836431176","title":"Radical Separation of Powers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo centuries of Orientalist scholarship have denied that Islam has a constitutional concept. Premodern Islamic political practice has been subject to mistranslation, misinterpretation, and condescension through the eyes of colonisers, and judged inferior to the norms of Western liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWael Hallaq, a leading scholar of Islamic law, sets the record straight in this groundbreaking volume. Traumatised by the tyranny of absolute monarchies, Europe came to see in Islam everything that it despised about itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy seeking to understand Islamic governance from within its own tradition of reason, Hallaq reveals premodern Islam to have a rich and distinctive constitutional tradition: starting from the individual as a political subject up to the power of executives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362959081708,"sku":"9781836431176","price":135.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23382373482841.jpg?v=1772907162"},{"product_id":"the-impossible-state-by-wael-hallaq-9780231162579","title":"The Impossible State","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the \u003cem\u003eIslamic state\u003c\/em\u003e, judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also critiques more expansively modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting solely on ethical foundations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern state not only suffers from serious legal, political, and constitutional issues, Hallaq argues, but also, by its very nature, fashions a subject inconsistent with what it means to be, or to live as, a Muslim. By Islamic standards, the state's technologies of the self are severely lacking in moral substance, and today's Islamic state, as Hallaq shows, has done little to advance an acceptable form of genuine Shari'a governance. The Islamists' constitutional battles in Egypt and Pakistan, the Islamic legal and political failures of the Iranian Revolution, and similar disappointments underscore this fact. Nevertheless, the state remains the favoured template of the Islamists and the ulama (Muslim clergymen).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding Muslims with a path toward realising the good life, Hallaq turns to the rich moral resources of Islamic history. Along the way, he proves political and other “crises of Islam” are not unique to the Islamic world nor to the Muslim religion. These crises are integral to the modern condition of both East and West, and by acknowledging these parallels, Muslims can engage more productively with their Western counterparts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471796420844,"sku":"9780231162579","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231162579-the-impossible-state.jpg?v=1775254912"},{"product_id":"restating-orientalism-by-wael-hallaq-9780231187626","title":"Restating Orientalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism have been waged among generations of scholars. But has Orientalism come to stand in for all of the sins of European modernity, at the cost of neglecting the complicity of the rest of the academic disciplines?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark theoretical investigation, Wael B. Hallaq reevaluates and deepens the critique of Orientalism in order to deploy it for rethinking the foundations of the modern project. Refusing to isolate or scapegoat Orientalism, \u003cem\u003eRestating Orientalism\u003c\/em\u003e extends the critique to other fields, from law, philosophy, and scientific inquiry to core ideas of academic thought such as sovereignty and the self. Hallaq traces their involvement in colonialism, mass annihilation, and systematic destruction of the natural world, interrogating and historicising the set of causes that permitted modernity to wed knowledge to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRestating Orientalism\u003c\/em\u003e offers a bold rethinking of the theory of the author, the concept of sovereignty, and the place of the secular Western self in the modern project, reopening the problem of power and knowledge to an ethical critique and ultimately theorising an exit from modernity's predicaments. A remarkably ambitious attempt to overturn the foundations of a wide range of academic disciplines while also drawing on the best they have to offer, \u003cem\u003eRestating Orientalism\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the depth of academia's lethal complicity in modern forms of capitalism, colonialism, and hegemonic power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597884113132,"sku":"9780231187626","price":141.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d26b64f8045e65c33201af9e86af2fc5.jpg?v=1778027846"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/wael-hallaq.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}