Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface “The People Wills . . .” ix
4. 1. The Idea of Islamic Democracy 1
5. 2. The Question of Sovereignty in Classical Islamic Political Thought 16
6. 3. The Crisis of the Caliphate and the End of Classical Islamic Political Theory 38
7. 4. The Sovereignty of God and the Caliphate of Man 75
8. 5. The Law We Would Give Ourselves 114
9. 6. A Sovereign Umma and a Living Sharīʿa 150
10. 7. After Islamic Democracy, after Sovereignty 201
11. Notes 231
12. Acknowledgments 283
13. Index 287