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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
Noah Feldman

One of Economist 's 2008 Best Books
Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers

To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8598.htmlwhere you will also find a Harper's Magazine interview with Noah Feldman.

Noah Feldman deeply probes the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness in The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. In this incisive book, Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the shari'a--the law of the traditional Islamic state--in the modern Muslim world.

"The growing clamor for a return to Sharia law in the Muslim world has often been met with alarm by the West. But Feldman remains coolheaded, placing the movement in a historical context and suggesting that its ideal of 'a just legal system, one that administers the law fairly,' is an understandable goal in a region dominated by unchecked oligarchies."--New Yorker

A Council on Foreign Relations Book

Paper | $12.95 / £8.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-14804-5
Cloth | 2008 | $22.95 / £15.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-12045-4
e-Book | $12.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-2407-6