Islam and liberal citizenship : the search for an overlapping consensus /

Some argue that Muslims have no tradition of separation of church and state and therefore can't participate in secular, pluralist society. At the other extreme, some Muslims argue that it is the duty of all believers to resist western forms of government and to impose Islamic law. Andrew F. Mar...

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March, Andrew F.
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Zusammenfassung:
Some argue that Muslims have no tradition of separation of church and state and therefore can't participate in secular, pluralist society. At the other extreme, some Muslims argue that it is the duty of all believers to resist western forms of government and to impose Islamic law. Andrew F. March demonstrates that there are very strong and authentically Islamic arguments for accepting the demands of citizenship in a liberal democracy, many of them found even in medieval works of Islamic jurisprudence. In fact, he shows, it is precisely the fact that Rawlsian political liberalism makes no claim
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1 online resource (361 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-988706-3
0-19-983858-5
0-19-971617-X
1-282-05373-6
9786612053733
Schlagworte:
Citizenship (Islamic law)
Muslims > Non-Islamic countries.
Pluralism > Religious aspects > Islam.
Liberalism > Religious aspects > Islam.
Citizenship > Europe.
Liberalism > Europe.
Islam and secularism > Europe.
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