Why do Muslim-majority countries score above the global average for authoritarianism, official protection of religion, religious laws, criminal blasphemy laws, mob attacks on blasphemy, and belief in Hell? Ahmet Kuru and Jared Rubin point to the long-standing “ulema-state alliance”. Clerics legitimised ruling caliphs, who in turn funded madrasahs, instituted sharia law and empowered favoured clerics.
Isn't your notion of circumscribed regions put far more succinctly by Karl Wittfogel with his concept of "hydraulic despotism": a tyranny which rules thru control of the water supply?
Isn't your notion of circumscribed regions put far more succinctly by Karl Wittfogel with his concept of "hydraulic despotism": a tyranny which rules thru control of the water supply?