Islamic Foundations Of A Free Society

Author : Mustafa Acar,Souad Adnane,Azhar Aslam,Hasan Yücel Başdemir,Kathya Berrada,Maszlee Malik,Youcef Maouchi,Hicham El Moussaoui,M. A. Muqtedar Khan,Bican Şahin,Atilla Yayla
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780255367295

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Islamic Foundations of a Free Society by Mustafa Acar,Souad Adnane,Azhar Aslam,Hasan Yücel Başdemir,Kathya Berrada,Maszlee Malik,Youcef Maouchi,Hicham El Moussaoui,M. A. Muqtedar Khan,Bican Şahin,Atilla Yayla Pdf

Islam is growing rapidly both in its traditional homelands and in the West. Some in the West view Islam with a mixture of fear and suspicion. However, it is also fair to say that there is widespread ignorance about Islam, and especially about its relationship to political systems and the economy. Is Islam compatible with a free society and a free economy? Is the fact that many Muslim-majority states do not have free economies or polities a result of an incompatibility between Islam and political and economic freedom, or does it result from an unfortunate series of historical events? What role has past colonialism played in encouraging Muslim extremism? Exactly what does Islam have to say about freedom in economic, political and religious life? This book, written by a range of Islamic scholars, sheds a great deal of light on these crucial questions. It is an important book for those in the West who need to understand Islam better. It is also important for those in Muslim countries who can influence the development of political systems and economic policy. The publication of this book could not be more timely.

Author : Nouh El Harmouzi,Linda Whetstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Islamic countries
ISBN : 0255367309

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Islamic Foundations of a Free Society by Nouh El Harmouzi,Linda Whetstone Pdf

Author : Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Islam
ISBN : OCLC:2510805

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The Qurʼanic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society by Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari Pdf

Author : Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Religious life
ISBN : LCCN:73930592

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The Qurʼanic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society by Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari Pdf

Author : Eamonn Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 0255366914

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Foundations of a Free Society by Eamonn Butler Pdf

Author : Shafiullah Jan,Mehmet Asutay
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788116732

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A Model for Islamic Development by Shafiullah Jan,Mehmet Asutay Pdf

This book aims to explore and analyse Islamic Moral Economy (IME) as an alternative economic and social system to capitalism and socialism. It proposes a new model of Islamic development, integrating global development within an Islamic framework of spiritual development. It is argued that the failure of Muslim countries to provide basic necessities and an environment free of oppression and injustice can be overcome with this authentic Islamic development framework. In addition, this book can be an important study to identify the theological, political, social and economic boundaries for changing the society to produce IME oriented developmentalism.

Author : Cheryl Benard,Andrew Riddile,Peter A. Wilson,Steven W. Popper
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833036209

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Civil Democratic Islam by Cheryl Benard,Andrew Riddile,Peter A. Wilson,Steven W. Popper Pdf

In the face of Islam's own internal struggles, it is not easy to see who we should support and how. This report provides detailed descriptions of subgroups, their stands on various issues, and what those stands may mean for the West. Since the outcomes can matter greatly to international community, that community might wish to influence them by providing support to appropriate actors. The author recommends a mixed approach of providing specific types of support to those who can influence the outcomes in desirable ways.

Author : Maszlee Malik
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315414645

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Foundations of Islamic Governance by Maszlee Malik Pdf

The aim of this book is to explore and analyze the Islamic axioms, foundation principles and values underpinning the field of governance in an attempt to construct the architectonics of a new systemic and dynamic theory and formulate the articulation of ‘Islamic governance’. This discursive and abstract, rather than being an empirical exercise, assumes to produce a ‘good governance’ framework within its own formulation through a value-shaped dynamic model according to maqasid al-Shari’ah (higher objective of Shari’ah) by going beyond the narrow remit of classical and contemporary discussions produced on the topic, which propose a certain institutional model of governance based on the classical juristic (fiqh) method. Through an exclusive analytical discursive approach in this book, readers will find that Islam as one of the major religions in the contemporary world with the claim of promising the underpinning principles and philosophical foundations of worldly affairs and institutions through a micro method of producing homoIslamicus could contribute towards development of societies by establishing a unique model of governance from its explicit ontological worldview through a directed descriptive epistemology.

Author : Iza R. Hussin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226323480

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The Politics of Islamic Law by Iza R. Hussin Pdf

In The Politics of Islamic Law, Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of ‘Islamic law.’ She demonstrates that not only is Islamic law not the shari’ah, its present institutional forms, substantive content, symbolic vocabulary, and relationship to state and society—in short, its politics—are built upon foundations laid during the colonial encounter. Drawing on extensive archival work in English, Arabic, and Malay—from court records to colonial and local papers to private letters and visual material—Hussin offers a view of politics in the colonial period as an iterative series of negotiations between local and colonial powers in multiple locations. She shows how this resulted in a paradox, centralizing Islamic law at the same time that it limited its reach to family and ritual matters, and produced a transformation in the Muslim state, providing the frame within which Islam is articulated today, setting the agenda for ongoing legislation and policy, and defining the limits of change. Combining a genealogy of law with a political analysis of its institutional dynamics, this book offers an up-close look at the ways in which global transformations are realized at the local level.

Author : Mustafa Akyol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780393081978

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Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty by Mustafa Akyol Pdf

“A delightfully original take on…the prospects for liberal democracy in the broader Islamic Middle East.”—Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal As the Arab Spring threatens to give way to authoritarianism in Egypt and reports from Afghanistan detail widespread violence against U.S. troops and women, news from the Muslim world raises the question: Is Islam incompatible with freedom? In Islam without Extremes, Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol answers this question by revealing the little-understood roots of political Islam, which originally included both rationalist, flexible strains and more dogmatic, rigid ones. Though the rigid traditionalists won out, Akyol points to a flourishing of liberalism in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the unique “Islamo-liberal synthesis” in present-day Turkey. As he powerfully asserts, only by accepting a secular state can Islamic societies thrive. Islam without Extremes offers a desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and liberty.

Author : Leonardo A. Villalón
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521460071

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Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal by Leonardo A. Villalón Pdf

The Sufi Muslim orders to which the vast majority of Senegalese belong are the most significant institutions of social organization in the country. While studies of Islam and politics have tended to focus on the destabilizing force of religiously based groups, Leonardo Villalon argues that in Senegal the orders have been a central component of a political system that has been among the most stable in Africa. Focusing on a regional administrative center, he combines a detailed account of grassroots politics with an analysis of national and international forces to examine the ways in which the internal dynamics of the orders shape the exercise of power by the Senegalese state. This is a major study that should be read by every student of Islam and politics as well as of Africa.

Author : Khaled Abou El Fadl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691119380

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Islam and the Challenge of Democracy by Khaled Abou El Fadl Pdf

The events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism have provoked widespread discussion about the possibility of democracy in the Islamic world. Such topics as the meaning of jihad, the role of clerics as authoritative interpreters, and the place of human rights and toleration in Islam have become subjects of urgent public debate around the world. With few exceptions, however, this debate has proceeded in isolation from the vibrant traditions of argument within Islamic theology, philosophy, and law. Islam and the Challenge of Democracy aims to correct this deficiency. The book engages the reader in a rich discourse on the challenges of democracy in contemporary Islam. The collection begins with a lead essay by Khaled Abou El Fadl, who argues that democracy, especially a constitutional democracy that protects basic individual rights, is the form of government best suited to promoting a set of social and political values central to Islam. Because Islam is about submission to God and about each individual's responsibility to serve as His agent on Earth, Abou El Fadl argues, there is no place for the subjugation to human authority demanded by authoritarian regimes. The lead essay is followed by eleven others from internationally respected specialists in democracy and religion. They address, challenge, and engage Abou El Fadl's work. The contributors include John Esposito, Muhammad Fadel, Noah Feldman, Nader Hashemi, Bernard Haykel, Muqtedar Khan, Saba Mahmood, David Novak, William Quandt, Kevin Reinhart, and Jeremy Waldron.

Author : Abbas Mehregan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004274464

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Religion, Religiosity, and Democratic Values by Abbas Mehregan Pdf

In Religion, Religiosity, and Democratic Values, Abbas Mehregan examines empirically the effects of individual religiosity, historical religion, institutional democracy, and socioeconomic development on attitudes towards free market economics and confidence in civil society organizations in 60 Islamic and non-Islamic societies.

Author : Habib Tiliouine,Richard J. Estes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319247748

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The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies by Habib Tiliouine,Richard J. Estes Pdf

This handbook addresses the historical background of the Islamic world and reviews its basic past intellectual achievements. It studies social progress of these regions and sub-regions in comparison with other parts of the world. It uses large data sets and well established statistically weighted Indexes in order to assess the nature and pace of the multiple facets of social change in member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The handbook extensively discusses the main challenges confronting the Islamic nations in the social, economic, political, and ideological fields. Though it is recognizable that social change in the Islamic World is generally positive, it remains highly variable in pace and there is room to speed it up to the benefit of millions of deprived Muslim people. Hence, the book studies the different propositions and programs of action, such as the United Nations’ Millennium Development Campaign and the OIC’s Ten-Year Programme of Action to present an integrated and comprehensive agenda of action to help improve the situation in the Islamic World.

Author : John L. Esposito,John O. Voll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198026754

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Islam and Democracy by John L. Esposito,John O. Voll Pdf

Are Islam and democracy on a collision course? Do Islamic movements seek to "hijack democracy?" How have governments in the Muslim world responded to the many challenges of Islam and democracy today? A global religious resurgence and calls for greater political participation have been major forces in the post-Cold War period. Across the Muslim world, governments and Islamic movements grapple with issues of democratization and civil society. Islam and Democracy explores the Islamic sources (beliefs and institutions) relevant to the current debate over greater political participation and democratization. Esposito and Voll use six case studies--Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Sudan--to look at the diversity of Muslim experiences and experiments. At one end of the spectrum, Iran and Sudan represent two cases of militant, revolutionary Islam establishing political systems. In Pakistan and Malaysia, however, the new movements have been recognized and made part of the political process. Egypt and Algeria reveal the coexistence of both extremist and moderate Islamic activism and demonstrate the complex challenges confronting ruling elites. These case studies prove that despite commonalities, differing national contexts and identities give rise to a multiplicity of agendas and strategies. This broad spectrum of case studies, reflecting the multifaceted relationship of Islam and Democracy, provides important insight into the powerful forces of religious resurgence and democratization which will inevitably impact global politics in the twenty first century.