A strong belief in separation of government from society, and traditionally opposed to unity of state and religion too.
Islam as a whole, prior to Peak Colonialism (which obviously led to some serious cultural and social restructuring) Islam was big on society-religion being apart from government and power. Leave government alone and ignore it as much as you can to live well within society - Sharia as a social code for getting along, with more wiggle-room and freedom compared to medieval laws from governments or local elite.
Debt , pp. 220-225 has a lot more of Graeber on the matter and we can both check the bibliography for more in depth reading.
Graeber also liked to point out that Shia Islam is quite anarchistic and anti-state authority.
And also that markets divorced from state power lacked a lot of the coercive power they have in the modern Anglo-European unity of state and capital.
I whish that would still be the case today :<
Shia has far fewer states and been less interested in temporal power, even Iran is quite an odd case.
You can still kill billionaires. I believe in you.
How is Shia Islam anarchistic? It’s basically Muslim Catholicism.
A strong belief in separation of government from society, and traditionally opposed to unity of state and religion too.
Islam as a whole, prior to Peak Colonialism (which obviously led to some serious cultural and social restructuring) Islam was big on society-religion being apart from government and power. Leave government alone and ignore it as much as you can to live well within society - Sharia as a social code for getting along, with more wiggle-room and freedom compared to medieval laws from governments or local elite.
Debt , pp. 220-225 has a lot more of Graeber on the matter and we can both check the bibliography for more in depth reading.