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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Autocracy

The Modernist Roots of Islamic Autocracy: Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the UAE-Israel Peace Deal

By David H. Warren  //  August 27, 2020August 28, 2020

Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah’s justification for Islamic autocracy is far from a throwback to an imagined premodern world of Muslim scholars united with pious sultans, but rather, deeply indebted to the reformist idioms of Islamic…

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