Islam and Statehood

ARMANDO SALVATORE is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies and the Barbara and Patrick Keenan Chair in Interfaith Studies at McGill University, Montreal. A comparative-historical sociologist of knowledge and institutions, he is the author of The Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power and Civility and lead editor of The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam and The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East.

• Introduction: Beyond the Sociology of Islam? 1Toward an "Islamic Frame" 1Reframing the "Islamic Ecumene" 6Chapters' Roadmap 121 A Southern Dialogue on the "Islamic Frame": Instituting Life in the Ecumene 21Confronting the Insider–Outsider Dichotomy in Knowing Islam 21Understanding vs. Explanation? 31Charting the Path: Conceptual Maps from Southern/Italian Thought 362 Triggering the Instituting Process: From Narrative to Habitus 55Adab and Hadith: Distinction of Registers Within a Narrative Continuum? 55The Virtuous Habitus of Managing Difference 64The Combined Instituting Force of Maslaha and Adab 733 Connecting Spaces and Bodies on the Way (Tariqa) 85The Connective Habitus of Wayfaring (Suluk) 85The Intercorporeality of Walaya 96The Confraternal Bond of Futuwwa 1034 The Waqf: Circulating the Gift, Resisting Incorporation 117The Mainstream Channel in Instituting the Ecumene 117Articulating the Islamic Difference via Waqf 126The Alternate Instituting Power of Relationality 1385 Instituting Governance: A Khaldunian Inflection of the Knowledge–Power Nexus into the Adab–Siyasa Complex 149Understanding Dawla's Formation Through (and Beyond) 'Asabiyya 149'Asabiyya's Sublimation into Adab–Siyasa 156Adab–Siyasa Between Communication and Administration 1596 After the Mongols: Instituting Modern Statehood in the Ecumene 169A Sufi Lens on the Khaldunian Dawla 169The Recalibration of Dawla Via Turko-Mongol Power 175Endowing Universal Rulership 1837 A Saint–Philosopher–King? The Workings of Walaya in the Early-Modern Caliphate 195Restituting the Caliphate 195The Culmination of Walaya as the Cypher of the New Caliphate 201The Messianic Climax 2088 The Tadbir of Walaya: Explaining the Associative Rationale of Statehood in the Ecumene 221Vicious Cycle vs. Virtuous Circle? A Critical Reappraisal by the Carriers of Statecraft 221The Institutional Texture of the Dawla: The Role of Tadbir 229No Tadbir Without Walaya? 2379 Wither the "Body Politic"? 247The Political Theology of Leviathan 247The Modal Articulation of the Adab–Siyasa–Tadbir Complex 254Instituting Life in the Ecumene 266Conclusion: Before Succumbing to Colonial Sovereignty: An Original Political Modernity in the Ecumene? 279A Civilizing-Cum-Instituting Process (Writ Islamic) 279Beyond "Contractualism": Between Partnership and Companionship 284Index 295