Mbitcoiner on Nostr: Noticing more and more Muslims reading the Impossible State. It's a great book and I ...

Noticing more and more Muslims reading the Impossible State. It's a great book and I quote from it in Anti-Riba Money



But I caution any Muslim reading this book that they not get one-shotted by it and get paralyzed. The point is not to read Hallaq and then resign yourself to endless lament over the loss of some pristine pre nationstate order that cannot simply be copy pasted back into existence.

You have to move beyond that. You have to start thinking seriously about what forms of life, coordination, technics, myth, elite formation, digital infrastructure, and parallel institutions could actually outgrow the state rather than merely critique it. Need to figure out how Islamicate civilization might re emerge under entirely different future conditions without unconsciously reproducing the very modern logic we are trying to oppose.