The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization

ISBN-13: 9783319860565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 331 str.

Joseph J. Kaminski

Recenzje

"In The Contemporary Islamic Governed State, Kaminski places his focus primarily upon the intersection of politics and Islam through the lens of discourse analysis. Invoking such essential western scholars as Ernesto Laclau and Michel Foucault, Kaminski acknowledges and affirms the importance of discourse and its concomitant relationship to multiple nodal points of power in developing a conceptual framework for a viable political model." (Saeed A. Khan, Politics and Religion, Vol. 12 (1), March, 2019)
"A comprehensive summary of the discourse on Islamic political theory in relation to important Western political philosophical figures ... . Kaminski's book is a thematically wide-ranging project that engages with many fundamental legal-philosophical questions and how they can be evaluated in relation to more specific, concrete socio-political realities in many parts of the Muslim world today. ... this makes it all the more valuable for readers with a more advanced understanding of the topic of Islam and its relation to politics." (Translated from German, KISMET Online, September, 2018)

Spis treści

CHAPTER 1—INTRODUCTION: ‘Determining the basis for political discourse for the next generation’

PART I- HISTORICAL CONTEXT ANDTHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

CHAPTER 2—The Trajectory of the Development of Islamic Thought—A Comparison between 2 Earlier and 2 Later Scholars

 CHAPTER 3—The Ontological Framing of this Model of a Contemporary Islamic Governed State

CHAPTER 4—Considering Leadership and Laws in a Contemporary Islamic Governed State

CHAPTER 5—Considering Bureaucracy and Democracy in a Contemporary Islamic Governed State

CHAPTER 6—The Importance of Involving Women in the Political Apparatus of a Contemporary Islamic Governed State

CHAPTER 7—Considering the Role of Economic Justice in a Contemporary Islamic Governed State

PART II- CASE STUDIES AND CONCLUSION

 CHAPTER 8—The Case of Turkey: Soft Power and Economic Growth

 CHAPTER 9—The Case of Egypt: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and a Return to Brutal Dictatorship 

 CHAPTER 10—The Case of Tunisia: Pragmatism and Cooperation

CHAPTER 11—The Case of Malaysia: Prioritizing Economic Growth and Modernization 

CHAPTER 12—Conclusion: Creating a New Discourse

O autorze

Joseph J. Kaminski is an Assistant Professor at the International University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  His research interests are at the intersection of political theory and international relations/comparative politics with a regional focus on the Muslim world.  

Blurb

This book offers a normative reconceptualization of a modern Islamic governed state. First, Joseph Kaminski surveys the historical context of the trajectory of Islamic thought, and offers a unique discursive framework for reconceptualizing an Islamic governed state that rejects secular Enlightenment liberalism and instead is heavily grounded in Ancient Greek ideals of politics and political leadership.  Despite heavily borrowing from Greek thought, the model offered remains firmly rooted in a Shari’ah-based, discursive ontological framework.  The volume explores topics of bureaucracy, law, democracy, women in politics, and economic justice. Further, this volume presents case studies from Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and Malaysia, and utilizes the presented theoretical framework as a lens for analysis.