Engaging With the Impossible State: Handle With Care
Channel: Asad Zaman
Date: 2023-01-20

Wael Hallaq has explained how modern nation-states are founded on concepts anti-thetical to Islam. Because of this, we cannot use them to launch an Islamic Revival. At the same time, their global power means that we cannot avoid engaging with them. So, a transitional strategy must involve engagement with nation-states. To do so fruitfully requires unlearning many economic myths which ensure dependence of the poor on the rich, and make it impossible to create sovereign economic policies.