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"This book offers comparative ontologies of both Islam and liberalism as discourses more broadly construed. The author argues that, despite recent efforts to speak of overlapping consensuses and discursive congruence, the fundamental categories that constitute 'Islam' and 'Liberalism' remain very different, and that these differences should be taken seriously. Thus far, no recent scholarly works have explicitly or meticulously broken down where these differences lie. The author rigorously explores questions related to rights, moral epistemologies, the role of religion in the public sphere, and more general approaches to legal discourse, via primary and canonical sources constitutive of both Islam and liberalism. He then goes on to articulate why communitarian modes of thought are better suited for engaging with Islam and contemporary socio-political modes of organization than liberalism. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Politics and International Relations, Islam, Liberalism, and Communitarianism"--

Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Determining the Basis for Political Discourse for the Next Generation -- What this Work Seeks to Actually Do -- Islam and Governance-A Brief Overview of Last 20 Years -- Carpe Diem!-Why Now is the Time for Scholars to Offer New Ideas -- Going Back to Get to the Future -- Plato, Aristotle, and Ancient Greek Scholarship -- Case Studies and Application -- References -- Part I Historical Context and Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2 The Trajectory of the Development of Islamic Thought-A Comparison Between Two Earlier and Two Later Scholars -- Introduction -- Peripateticism Within the Early Islamic Philosophical Discourse -- A Brief Look at Some of the Major Schools Kalām Within the Sunni Discourse -- Al-Fārābī: The Second Teacher -- Ibn Rushd: The Symbiosis of Reason and Faith -- Orthodoxy and the Inward Turn Following 1258 CE -- Ibn Taymiyyah: The Conservative Reformer of the Thirteenth Century -- Mohammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb: An Eighteenth-Century Conservative Ḥanbalī Response to bid'ah in the Islamic Discourse -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 The Ontological Framing of this Model of a Contemporary Islamic Governed State -- Introduction -- Why not the Enlightenment or Liberalism? -- A Closer Look at the Applicability of Aristotle in this Model -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Considering Leadership and Laws in a Contemporary Islamic Governed State -- Introduction: A Look at Some Specific Leadership Qualities -- Balancing Power with Restraint -- A Closer Look at Some of the Ideas of Ayatollah Khomeini -- Sharī'ah Versus Fiqh-Two Different Terms with Two Different Meanings -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Considering Bureaucracy and Democracy in a Contemporary Islamic Governed State -- Introduction

This review article aims to challenge Andrew March's pessimism regarding the possibility of Islamic democracy in the modern world. It will argue that instead of conceptualizing the possibilities for Islamic democracy in a top-down manner, rooted in the language and imaginary of sovereignty, discussions about Islamic democracy ought to first focus on more empirically measurable and less theologically controversial things such as economic development, educational achievement, institutional functionality, and good governance. Such an approach removes the need for future Islamic political theorizing to be post-sovereigntist and/or post-statist as March contends. Instead, the future of Islamic political theorizing needs to actually be 'political,' addressing the same policy and administrative issues that any other form of contemporary democratic political thought aims to address.

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the two most important things that I have learned since taking a full-time position in 2014 at a newer private university in the Balkans: (1) the unique challenges you face when doing research in such a setting; and (2) how to handle the significant cultural differences that you will face in the classroom. This article also offers recommendations for earning the trust of students who will be suspicious of your motivation for teaching in their country. If you can manage these two realities, you will have a much easier time finding personal fulfillment and, ultimately, professional success in your new endeavor. This article focuses primarily on teaching in newer, private institutions known as Foundation Universities in developing countries more than long-established public institutions. However, you most certainly will face issues in these public institutions similar to those at smaller private ones.

This article is a work of comparative political theory and looks at how much of Joseph de Maistre's writings parallel the worldview held by ISIS and Al Qaeda, specifically in regard to the central role of absolute authority, the general rejection of modern rationalism, and the openly accepted use of violence in order to attain their desired ends. The last section of this paper will look at similarities between the general tone and style of rhetoric utilized by Maistre and ISIS/al Qaeda. This paper shows that the Schmittian language used by Maistre and the aforementioned groups is similar despite their outward doctrinal differences. This paper is an original comparative case study that fits within the emerging body of literature that shows that there is a common underlying language that can be ascribed to all religious extremist movements, regardless of their actual ideological orientation.