2018/07/19 by Mohammed Hashas · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #History #Islam #Islamic Studies and History #Islamic Studies and Radicalism #Islamic studies #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Law #Modernity #Opposition (politics) #Philosophy #Political science #Politics #Religion and Society Interactions #Religious studies #Sociology #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence #Theology
paper · doi:10.4324/9781315106397
openalex publication_date 2018/07/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
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 of 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 of Western Europe. Part I introduces four major projects that defend the idea of 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 of European Islam in the context of secular-liberal societies: British scholar George Hourani, Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane and the American philosopher John Rawls. The book shows that the ongoing efforts of European Muslim thinkers to revisit the concept of citizenship and political community can be seen as a new kind of political theology, in opposition to radical forms of Islamic thinking in some Muslim-majority countries. Opening a new path for examining Islamic thought "in and of" Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Islamic Studies, Islam in the West and Political Theology.