{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/1836431171?tag=bookfrontier-20","asin":"1836431171","authors":["Wael Hallaq","Wael B. Hallaq"],"book_id":"9781836431176","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/radical-separation-of-powers-1836431171","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781836431176.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","description":"Two centuries of Orientalist scholarship have denied that Islam has a constitutional concept. Premodern Islamic political practice has been subject to mistranslation, misinterpretation and condescension through the eyes of colonisers, and judged inferior to the norms of Western liberalism. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar of Islamic law, sets the record straight in this groundbreaking volume. Traumatised by the tyranny of absolute monarchies, Europe came to see in Islam everything that it despised about itself. By seeking to understand Islamic governance from within its own tradition of reason, Hallaq reveals premodern Islam to have a rich and distinctive constitutional tradition: starting from the individual as a political subject up to the power of executives.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781836431176","publication_date":"20260224","publisher":"Oneworld Publications","slug":"radical-separation-of-powers","subtitle":"A History of Islamic Constitutionalism","title":"Radical Separation of Powers"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"REL037060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Islamic Theology","score":0.7614,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL037010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Islamic History","score":0.7567,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL037030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Islamic Rituals & Practice","score":0.7251,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"REL037060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Islamic Theology","score":0.7614,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL037010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Islamic History","score":0.7567,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"REL037030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Islamic Rituals & Practice","score":0.7251,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"LAW001000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Administrative Law","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"LAW018000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Constitutional Law","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"PHI003000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Eastern Philosophy","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"PHI022000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Religion & Philosophy","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POL042000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Political Ideologies","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"REL037000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Islam - General","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"REL037030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Islamic Rituals & Practice","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"REL090000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Sufism","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Islamic Theology","score":0.7614,"slug":"islamic-theology"},{"label":"Islamic History","score":0.7567,"slug":"islamic-history"},{"label":"Islamic Rituals & Practice","score":0.7251,"slug":"islamic-rituals-practice"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers who enjoy Islamic Theology","Good for readers interested in history","Good for fans of Islam"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Rudolph T. Ware III","Rudolph T. Ware"],"book_id":"9781469614311","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781469614311.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","score":14.9954,"title":"The Walking Qur'an","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781469614311"},{"authors":["Mustafa Akyol"],"book_id":"9781250832511","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250832511.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","score":14.472,"title":"Reopening Muslim Minds","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250832511"},{"authors":["DK","D.K. Publishing"],"book_id":"9780744085440","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780744085440.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","score":14.4367,"title":"The Islam Book","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780744085440"},{"authors":["Carl W. Ernst Ph.D.","Carl W. Ernst"],"book_id":"9781590308844","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781590308844.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","score":14.4046,"title":"Sufism","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781590308844"},{"authors":["Yasir Qadhi","Salah Sharief","Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi"],"book_id":"9780860378730","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780860378730.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","score":14.3678,"title":"The Sirah of the Prophet (pbuh)","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780860378730"},{"authors":["Lesley Hazleton"],"book_id":"9781594632303","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781594632303.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","score":14.3297,"title":"The First Muslim","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781594632303"},{"authors":["Robert Spencer"],"book_id":"9781591022497","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781591022497.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","score":12.5051,"title":"Myth of Islamic Tolerance","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781591022497"},{"authors":["Gurdofarid Miskinzoda","Farhad Daftary"],"book_id":"9781780765068","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781780765068.jpg?v=20260417T204117Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-04-17T20%3A41%3A17Z","score":12.459,"title":"The Study of Shi‘i Islam","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781780765068"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:islam in pakistan a history"],"label":"History","score":0.9238,"slug":"history"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: History.","Reading lane: Islamic Theology and Islamic History.","Publisher: Oneworld Publications."]},"llm_signals":null,"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":false,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":1,"goodreads_ratings_count":1,"goodreads_reviews_count":0,"quality_score":0.8069}}