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 modernism. Indeed, the key reason that modern Islamic autocracy enj..
David H. Warren
David H. Warren is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His book, Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis, is forthcoming in 2021 and his publications can be viewed here.