WHY AN ISLAMIC STATE: The Life Projects of Two Great European Muslim

Muhammad Asad (1990 – 1992), the Jewish convert to Islam who rose to fame with his autobiography work. The road to Mecca, and Alija Izebegovic (1925 – 2003), the Bosnian leader during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, were men imbued in Islam’s spiritualizing and moralizing force that translated into political activism. Their intellectual journeys will inspire a younger generation of concerned Muslims, who look to religion not just as a private affair or cultural phenomenon, but as a paradigm with its own norms and notion, including the project of an Islamic star.