Secularism And Islam In Bangladesh

Author : Abdul,Abdul Wohab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1032532718

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Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh by Abdul,Abdul Wohab Pdf

"Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and its relationship with secularism in Bangladesh from pre-British to contemporary times. It focuses on the importance of understanding the dynamics between religion and secularism within specific cultural contexts. The author draws upon historical, sociological, and political literature, Bangladeshi electoral results, newspaper reports, and elite interviews with political commentators and offers a rich historical and empirical analysis. Arguing that extremist interpretations of Islam, which aim to establish a theocratic state, have not been able to influence the pluralistic religious and cultural life of Bangladesh substantially, the book shows that religious and cultural pluralism will continue to thrive despite the apparent threat posed by increasing religiosity among Bangladeshi Muslims. This book is a timely and significant contribution to the discourse on secularism and Islam, with relevance beyond Bangladesh and the wider Islamic world. It will appeal to scholars and researchers working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Asian Religions, and the Sociology of Religion"--

Author : Abdul,Abdul Wohab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1003411223

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Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh by Abdul,Abdul Wohab Pdf

"Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and its relationship with secularism in Bangladesh from pre-British to contemporary times. It focuses on the importance of understanding the dynamics between religion and secularism within specific cultural contexts. The author draws upon historical, sociological, and political literature, Bangladeshi electoral results, newspaper reports, and elite interviews with political commentators and offers a rich historical and empirical analysis. Arguing that extremist interpretations of Islam, which aim to establish a theocratic state, have not been able to influence the pluralistic religious and cultural life of Bangladesh substantially, the book shows that religious and cultural pluralism will continue to thrive despite the apparent threat posed by increasing religiosity among Bangladeshi Muslims. This book is a timely and significant contribution to the discourse on secularism and Islam, with relevance beyond Bangladesh and the wider Islamic world. It will appeal to scholars and researchers working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Asian Religions, and the Sociology of Religion"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814466981

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State and Secularism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rafiuddin Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110285975

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Religion, Identity & Politics by Rafiuddin Ahmed Pdf

Author : Ali Riaz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0742530841

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God Willing by Ali Riaz Pdf

Is Bangladesh becoming a Taliban state? The question has become urgent in light of the growing strength of militant groups supposedly aligned with Al Quaida, the landslide victory of the center-right coalition in the general election of October 2001, and the deliberate and planned violence against religious minorities that followed. God Willing explores the explosive issue of Talibanization by analyzing the politics of Islamism in the world's third most populous Muslim country. Ali Riaz helps the reader to understand the emergence of Islamism as a legitimate democratic political in a largely secular state, as opposed to the media's sensational portrayal of Bangladesh as a country overrun by Islamist forces with a supranational agenda. The author compares Bangladesh with Indonesia and Pakistan, thus adding a valuable global context for evaluating the politics of Muslim countries.

Author : Md Nazrul Islam,Md Saidul Islam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030429096

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Islam and Democracy in South Asia by Md Nazrul Islam,Md Saidul Islam Pdf

Grounded in the Weberian tradition, Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh presents a critical analysis of the complex relationship between Islam and democracy in South Asia and Bangladesh. The book posits that Islam and democracy are not necessarily incompatible, but that the former has a contributory role in the development of the latter. Islam came to Bengal largely by Sufis and missionaries through peaceful means and hence a moderate form of this religion got rooted in the society. Both militant Islam and militant secularism are equal threats to democracy and pluralism. Like democracy, political Islam has many faces. Political Islam adhering to democratic norms and practices, what the authors call “democratic Islamism,” unlike “militant Islamism,” is not anti-democratic. The book shows that the suppression of democracy and human rights creates avenues for the consolidation of militant Islamism, orthodox Islam, and “Islamic” terrorism, while the “fair play” of democracy results in the decline of anti-democratic form of political Islam.

Author : Mahmudur Rahman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527520615

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The Political History of Muslim Bengal by Mahmudur Rahman Pdf

Bangladesh, the eastern half of earth’s largest delta, Bengal, is today an independent country of 163 million people. Among the 98% ethnic Bengali population, above 90 percent practice Islam. Surprisingly, Buddhism was the predominant religion of the region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium. In the midst of a long and fierce Brahman-Buddhist conflict, political Islam arrived in Bengal in the very early 13th century. Against the background of the above history, this book tells the story of successive religious and political transformations, touching upon the sensitive subject of Bengali Muslim identity. Encompassing a period of more than a millennium, it narrates a political history beginning with the independent Muslim Sultanate and closing with the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh. The book concludes by discussing the present day, here termed “Authoritarian Secularism”.

Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674261440

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Islam and the Secular State by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Pdf

What should be the place of Shari‘a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari‘a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. An-Na‘im argues that the coercive enforcement of Shari‘a by the state betrays the Qur’an’s insistence on voluntary acceptance of Islam. Just as the state should be secure from the misuse of religious authority, Shari‘a should be freed from the control of the state. State policies or legislation must be based on civic reasons accessible to citizens of all religions. Showing that throughout the history of Islam, Islam and the state have normally been separate, An-Na‘im maintains that ideas of human rights and citizenship are more consistent with Islamic principles than with claims of a supposedly Islamic state to enforce Shari‘a. In fact, he suggests, the very idea of an “Islamic state” is based on European ideas of state and law, and not Shari‘a or the Islamic tradition. Bold, pragmatic, and deeply rooted in Islamic history and theology, Islam and the Secular State offers a workable future for the place of Shari‘a in Muslim societies.

Author : Michael S. H. Heng,Ten Chin Liew
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814282376

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State and Secularism by Michael S. H. Heng,Ten Chin Liew Pdf

The concept of a secular state is important in many parts of Asia and how this is resolved has important implications for The social, economic and political development of various Asian countries. Unfortunately, problems of the secular state have all along been studied based on the historical experience of state formation in Europe, with little (or no) input from the Asian perspective. This book will for The very first time, present mainly Asian perspectives, while drawing on Western experience as well. Conceptual issues are discussed together with detailed accounts on how different countries and traditions understand and seek to implement the ideas of a secular state.

Author : Julia Stephens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107173910

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Governing Islam by Julia Stephens Pdf

Stephens argues that encounters between Islam and British colonial rule in South Asia were fundamental to the evolution of modern secularism.

Author : Rokeya Chowdhury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1261276227

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From ‘Secular’ to ‘Islamo-secular’ Bangladesh by Rokeya Chowdhury Pdf

"This thesis studies the constitutional and legal transformation of Bangladesh from a secular democracy (1972) to a secular state with Islam as the state religion, ‘Islamo-secularism’ (2011). The state claims this self-styled secularity to be congruent to the sensibility of its majority Muslim citizenry, with no practical impact on the legal system. However, Islamists, secularists, as well as others not bracketed by those labels consider this religious-secular identity as an aberration. The majority Muslim attribute driven by cultural essentialism reinforces the stereotypes of ‘peace-loving Muslims’, ‘raging Islamists’, and ‘anti-Islamic liberals’. This thesis argues that the state invokes the binary of ‘Islamism v Secularism’ to shield its political convenience and divisive role. In order to deconstruct these static identities, the thesis studies performing arts as a field of contesting identity markers of the people of Bangladesh. Different genres of performing arts, both religious and non-religious, portray day-to-day lived relations of people, their hopes, aspirations, and ethos. Therefore studying performing arts in conjunction with the political and legal trajectories leading to Islamo-secularism allows this thesis to comprehensively map the changing public sphere in Bangladesh. It identifies how Islamo-secularism directly impacts the society and legal system and how Islamists and secularists are constituted and rooted in Bangladesh. The thesis concludes that Islamo-secularism though not tantamount to theocracy, erodes the constitutional guarantee of equality and dignity for all citizens regardless of religious belief. While the thesis does not aim to provide a way out from the crossroad of Islamo-secularism, it attempts to transcend the boundary of otherness by engaging with divergent performing arts"--

Author : Mubashar Hasan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9811511187

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Islam and Politics in Bangladesh by Mubashar Hasan Pdf

This book conceptualizes the politics of Bangladesh through an Islamic concept called ummah or the global brotherhood of Muslims. It demonstrates that, against the backdrop of geopolitics, capitalism and free flow of ideas, localization of this global religious concept at individual level, institutional level, major party platforms and state has cemented the current political condition in Bangladesh in which religiosity, religious intolerance, Islamization and extremism take place. By exploring the effects of ummah in Bangladeshi politics, this book shows how major political parties have mainstreamed political Islam in the country. The book rejects the long standing scholarly claim of religious-secular distinction in Bangladeshi politics and argues that with most Muslim-dominated states, there are no major secular parties in Bangladesh. There are only Islamic parties, which are more or less Islamic. The purely ‘rational’ domain of politics in Bangladesh is long lost, and political Islam sets the framework for politics in the country. The reason behind this logic of Bangladeshi politics is formed, contained and expanded by ummah.

Author : Abdul Wohab
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000985290

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Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh by Abdul Wohab Pdf

Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and its relationship with secularism in Bangladesh from pre-British to contemporary times. It focuses on the importance of understanding the dynamics between religion and secularism within specific cultural contexts. The author draws upon historical, sociological, and political literature, Bangladeshi electoral results, newspaper reports, and elite interviews with political commentators and offers a rich historical and empirical analysis. Arguing that extremist interpretations of Islam, which aim to establish a theocratic state, have not been able to influence the pluralistic religious and cultural life of Bangladesh substantially, the book shows that religious and cultural pluralism will continue to thrive despite the apparent threat posed by increasing religiosity among Bangladeshi Muslims. This book is a timely and significant contribution to the discourse on secularism and Islam, with relevance beyond Bangladesh and the wider Islamic world. It will appeal to scholars and researchers working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Asian Religions, and the Sociology of Religion.

Author : Ahmet T. Kuru,Alfred Stepan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231530255

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Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey by Ahmet T. Kuru,Alfred Stepan Pdf

While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several choices in policy have strained its relationship with the East and the West. Providing historical, social, and religious context for this behavior, the essays in Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey examine issues relevant to Turkish debates and global concerns, from the state's position on religion to its involvement with the European Union. Written by experts in a range of disciplines, the chapters explore the toleration of diversity during the Ottoman Empire's classical period; the erosion of ethno-religious heterogeneity in modern, pre-democratic times; Kemalism and its role in modernization and nation building; the changing political strategies of the military; and the effect of possible EU membership on domestic reforms. The essays also offer a cross-Continental comparison of "multiple secularisms," as well as political parties, considering especially Turkey's Justice and Development Party in relation to Europe's Christian Democratic parties. Contributors tackle critical research questions, such as the legacy of the Ottoman Empire's ethno-religious plurality and the way in which Turkey's assertive secularism can be softened to allow greater space for religious actors. They address the military's "guardian" role in Turkey's secularism, the implications of recent constitutional amendments for democratization, and the consequences and benefits of Islamic activism's presence within a democratic system. No other collection confronts Turkey's contemporary evolution so vividly and thoroughly or offers such expert analysis of its crucial social and political systems. Contributors: Karen Barkey (Columbia University) Ümit Cizre (Istanbul Sehir University) M. Sükrü Hanioglu (Princeton University) Stathis N. Kalyvas (Yale University) Ahmet T. Kuru (San Diego State University) Joost Lagendijk (Sabanc University) Ergun Özbudun (Bilkent University) Alfred Stepan (Columbia University)

Author : K. V. Paliwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : UOM:39015069114414

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Islamism and Genocide of Minorities in Bangladesh by K. V. Paliwal Pdf