This panel will focus on the way that Muslims around the world today are trying to conceptualize and/or "implement” the idea of an Islamic state. It is thus not exclusively on constitutional reform in the Arab World. Participants will explore the states that are likely to emerge from the Arab spring and their relationship to Islam. They will also explore how Muslims outside the Arab world are currently rethinking basic questions of governance and the role of Islam in the State. Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited, to (a) the manner in which Muslims theorize what an Islamic state would look like, (b) changes that have been implemented in recent years in the Muslim world with the goal of Islamizing the state, and (c) the way that the Arab Spring has impacted discourse about Islamic law and the Islamic state in non-Arab countries.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.