Islamic minority governance understood on its own terms can critique liberal models

Evidence

While rich in its empirical presentation of legal literature on the subject, the book is heavily anachronistic and hopelessly ideological, succumbing to modern and distinctly liberal notions of equality and state structures, thus overlooking—and thus misjudging—the internal social/communal logic of Islamic governance. In fact, treating the Islamic model of rule of law on its own terms may offer a rich source of critique or at least a productive heuristic exercise in the study of modern forms of “minority” governance, including the liberal. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 733

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: what liberal ‘minority governance’ frameworks could learn from dhimmi logic if read on its own terms rather than anachronistically.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: Emon’s anachronism critique is asserted but the specific misjudgments are not detailed here; how exactly does liberal lens distort the dhimmi legal record?