Title: The Idea of European Islam: Religion, Ethics, Politics and Perpetual Modernity
Abstract:Suspicions about the integration Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies the visibility anti-Western Islamic discourses salafi orig...Suspicions about the integration Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies the visibility anti-Western Islamic discourses salafi origin, which have monopolized the debate on the true Islam, not only among Muslims but also the eyes the general population across Europe; these discourses combined with Islamophobic discourses reinforce the so-called incompatibility between the West and Islam.
This book breaks away from this clash between Islam and the West, by arguing that European Islam is possible. It analyzes the contribution that European Islam has made to the formation an innovative Islamic theology that is deeply ethicist and modern, and it clarifies how this constructed European Islamic theology is able to contribute to the various debates that are related to secular-liberal democracies Western Europe. Part I introduces four major projects that defend the idea European Islam from different disciplines and perspectives: politics, political theology, jurisprudence and philosophy. Part II uses the frameworks from three major philosophers and scholars to approach the idea European Islam the context secular-liberal societies: British scholar George Hourani, Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane and the American philosopher John Rawls. The book shows that the ongoing efforts European Muslim thinkers to revisit the concept citizenship and political community can be seen as a new kind political theology, opposition to radical forms Islamic thinking some Muslim-majority countries.
Opening a new path for examining Islamic thought in and of Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars Islamic Studies, Islam the West and Political Theology.Read More
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-19
Language: en
Type: book
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