Islamic State as a Legal Order

To Have No Law but Islam, between Shari'a and Globalization
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-20262-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

This book explores the legal dimension of the Islamic State, an aspect which has hitherto been neglected in the literature.

ISIS’ dystopian experience, intended as a short-lived territorial and political governance, has been analyzed from multiple points of view, including the geopolitical, social and religious ones. However, its legal dimension has never been properly dealt with in a comprehensive way, assuming as a point of reference both the Islamic and the Western legal tradition. This book analyzes ISIS as the expression of a potential though never fully realized legal order. The book does not describe ISIS’ possible classifications according to the standards and the criteria of international law, such as its possible statehood or proto-statehood, issues that are however touched upon. Rather, it analyzes ISIS’ own legal awareness, based on the group’s literary materials, which show a considerable amount of juridical work. Such material, mainly propagandistic in its nature, is essential in understanding which kind of legal order ISIS aimed at establishing.

The book will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of Law, International Relations, Political Sciences, Terrorism Studies, Religion and Middle Eastern Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramaioli, Federico Lorenzo

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Öffentlicher Dienst Wehrrecht, Soldaten- und Zivildienstrecht, Bundesfreiwilligendienst
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ISIS as the Expression of a Legal Order  1. About ISIS  2. About Shari'a  3. Shari'a and ISIS  4. No Law but Islam: A Theory of Exclusivity  5. No Single Rule Left Out: Integrally Shari'a  6. Voting on God’s Will: Immediateness and Mediation  7. Striving on the Straight Path: Jihad  8. A New Land of Islam: Reestablishing the Caliphate  9. Reinventing Spatiality: A Return to Universalism  Conclusion: ISIS Between Shari'a and Globalization

Über Autor(innen)

Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli is an Italian diplomat and lawyer, presently serving as Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of the Italian Republic in Doha (Qatar). He already served as Consul of the Italian Republic in Freiburg (Germany). Previously, he cooperated for three years with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan in the fields of philosophy of law and legal methodology. His main publications include monographs and articles in academic journals, mainly dealing with the legal and philosophical perspectives of the Far East and the Muslim world.