This article tells the archival story of how Rawls invented a hypothetical Muslim state that he called “Kazanistan.” It examines drafts of The Law of Peoples from 1992 to 1998, Rawls's notes, his personal correspondence, and the sources preserved in his archives. I track Rawls's gradual interest in Islam, which resulted in his invention of Kazanistan during the final revisions, in March 1998. Contrary to the aesthetics of rigor and simplicity in ideal theory's methods, Rawls's actual method in his incursion into “comparative philosophy” and Islam was circuitous and contingent. And contrary to ideal theory's self-presentation as emerging from an ahistorical conceptual realm, the idealized abstraction of Islam emerges from Rawls's own history, or from an ideologically limited set of texts, conversations, and political debates about Islam. The genealogy of Kazanistan illustrates how liberal philosophy extracts data from other disciplines to construct other peoples, without regard for the surrounding disciplinary politics.

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伊斯兰教、罗尔斯和 20 世纪晚期自由主义哲学的学科界限

这篇文章讲述了罗尔斯如何发明一个他称之为“喀山斯坦”的假想穆斯林国家的档案故事。它检查草稿万民法从 1992 年到 1998 年，罗尔斯的笔记、他的私人信件以及保存在他档案中的资料。我追踪了罗尔斯对伊斯兰教的逐渐兴趣，这导致他在 1998 年 3 月的最后修订期间发明了喀山。与理想理论方法中的严谨和简单的美学相反，罗尔斯在侵入“比较哲学”和伊斯兰教时的实际方法是迂回和偶然的。与理想理论从非历史概念领域的自我呈现相反，伊斯兰教的理想化抽象来自罗尔斯自己的历史，或者来自意识形态有限的一组关于伊斯兰教的文本、对话和政治辩论。喀山的家谱说明了自由主义哲学如何从其他学科中提取数据来构建其他民族，