
Imam Tom discusses The Impossible State by Wael Hallaq
Blogging Theology
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The Importance of Reason in the Enlightenment Project
Husain: The assumption that reason is universal and morality is founded drives liberalism to be supremacist and imperialist. He says the state is not a universal or transhistorical category, it's a particular set of relations between subject government law and ethics or morality. Husain: We can't look back in time before the nation state and call every single system of government as a state; this masks the types of changes that occurred.
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