Islam and Statehood: Religion, Institutions and So vereignty, Volume 2 Instituting the Ecumene

Introduction: Beyond the Sociology of Islam? 1
Toward an "Islamic Frame" 1
Reframing the "Islamic Ecumene" 6
Chapters' Roadmap 12

1 A Southern Dialogue on the "Islamic Frame": Instituting Life in the Ecumene 21
Confronting the Insider-Outsider Dichotomy in Knowing Islam 21
Understanding vs. Explanation? 31
Charting the Path: Conceptual Maps from Southern/Italian Thought 36

2 Triggering the Instituting Process: From Narrative to Habitus 55
Adab and Hadith: Distinction of Registers Within a Narrative Continuum? 55
The Virtuous Habitus of Managing Difference 64
The Combined Instituting Force of Maslaha and Adab 73

3 Connecting Spaces and Bodies on the Way (Tariqa) 85
The Connective Habitus of Wayfaring (Suluk) 85
The Intercorporeality of Walaya 96
The Confraternal Bond of Futuwwa 103

4 The Waqf: Circulating the Gift, Resisting Incorporation 117
The Mainstream Channel in Instituting the Ecumene 117
Articulating the Islamic Difference via Waqf 126
The Alternate Instituting Power of Relationality 138

5 Instituting Governance: A Khaldunian Inflection of the Knowledge-Power Nexus into the Adab-Siyasa Complex 149
Understanding Dawla's Formation Through (and Beyond) 'Asabiyya 149
'Asabiyya's Sublimation into Adab-Siyasa 156
Adab-Siyasa Between Communication and Administration 159

6 After the Mongols: Instituting Modern Statehood in the Ecumene 169
A Sufi Lens on the Khaldunian Dawla 169
The Recalibration of Dawla Via Turko-Mongol Power 175
Endowing Universal Rulership 183

7 A Saint-Philosopher-King? The Workings of Walaya in the Early-Modern Caliphate 195
Restituting the Caliphate 195
The Culmination of Walaya as the Cypher of the New Caliphate 201
The Messianic Climax 208

8 The Tadbir of Walaya: Explaining the Associative Rationale of Statehood in the Ecumene 221
Vicious Cycle vs. Virtuous Circle? A Critical Reappraisal by the Carriers of Statecraft 221
The Institutional Texture of the Dawla: The Role of Tadbir 229
No Tadbir Without Walaya? 237

9 Wither the "Body Politic"? 247
The Political Theology of Leviathan 247
The Modal Articulation of the Adab-Siyasa-Tadbir Complex 254
Instituting Life in the Ecumene 266

Conclusion: Before Succumbing to Colonial Sovereignty: An Original Political Modernity in the Ecumene? 279
A Civilizing-Cum-Instituting Process (Writ Islamic) 279
Beyond "Contractualism": Between Partnership and Companionship 284

Index 295