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ajiss-1109	Anjum, Ovamir	Hallaq’s Challenge: Can the Shari‘ah Save Us from Modernity?	2013.0	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5026	138	38	When not used for oppression, the machinery of state governance can be turned by leaders into a represen- tative of the people’s will, determining thereby what the state will become: a liberal democracy, a socialist regime, or an Islamic state implementing the values and ideals enshrined in the Qur’an and those that the Prophet had once realized in his “mini-state” of Medina. Ovamir Anjum Abstract Wael Hallaq, a leading western scholar of Islamic law, throws down the gauntlet in this daring book, challenging not only Orien- talist distortions of Islam but also turning the tables on modernity, the ubiquitous and ineluctable paradigm that informs nearly all thinking, Muslim and non-Muslim, about the Shari‘ah.	cache/ajiss-1109.pdf	txt/ajiss-1109.txt