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.
