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Reading Tariq Ramadan: Political Liberalism, Islam, and 'Overlapping Consensus'
TL;DR: The authors discuss the controversy over the career and thought of Tariq Ramadan and offer an account of what Western liberals ought to hope for from the thought of such a figure and then show, pace Ramadan's critiques, that his views on European citizenship and social cooperation are largely "reasonable" from the standpoint of political liberalism.
Abstract: In this paper I discuss the controversy over the career and thought of Tariq Ramadan. I offer an account of what Western liberals ought to hope for from the thought of such a figure and then show, pace Ramadan's critiques, that his views on European citizenship and social cooperation are largely "reasonable" from the standpoint of political liberalism. I also situate Ramadan's views in the context of Islamic law and contemporary Islamist thought on life in the West.
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19 Jul 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that European Islam is possible, arguing that the contribution of European Islam has made to the formation of an innovative Islamic theology that is deeply ethicist and modern, and that this constructed European Islamic theology is able to contribute to the various debates that are related to secular-liberal democracies of Western Europe.
Abstract: Suspicions about the integration of Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies in the visibility of anti-Western Islamic discourses of salafi origin, which have monopolized the debate on the "true" Islam, not only among Muslims but also in the eyes of 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 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.
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01 Sep 2017
TL;DR: This article found a positive relationship between religious beliefs, behavior, and belonging and perceptions of compatibility with American democratic traditions among U.S. Muslims, finding that the most religious are the most likely to believe in political integration in the United States.
Abstract: Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, popular perceptions in the United States, especially among political elites, continue to believe that religious Muslims oppose American democratic traditions and values. While many studies find positive relationships between mosque attendance and civic participation among U.S. Muslims, an empirical and theoretical puzzle continues to exist. What is missing is research that examines the relationships between the multi-dimensional concept of religiosity and how this is associated with public opinion and attitudes towards the American political system among Muslim Americans. Using a unique national survey of Muslim Americans, we find a positive relationship between religious beliefs, behavior, and belonging and perceptions of compatibility with American democratic traditions. Quite simply, the most religious are the most likely to believe in political integration in the United States.
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03 Jun 2013
TL;DR: Tariq Ramadan and Tareq Oubrou as discussed by the authors presented theologico-political justifications for European Islam and the Islamic Sources of Law: from Adaptation to Transformation.
Abstract: Bassam Tibi – Political Justifications for Euro-Islam. Islam’s Predicament with Modernity. Cultural Modernity for Religious Reform and Cultural Change: towards Euro –Islam. Tariq Ramadan – Theologico-Political Justifications for European Islam. Renewing the Islamic Sources of Law: from Adaptation to Transformation. European Islam within Radical Reform. Tareq Oubrou and Abdennour Bidar – Theologico-Philosophic Justifications for European Islam. Tareq Oubrou: Geotheology and the Minoriticization of Islam. Abdennour Bidar: from Self Islam to Overcoming Religion. European Islam in Context: Renewal for Perpetual Modernity. European Islam and the Islamic Tradition: Revisionist-Reformist. Conceptualizing the Idea of European Islam: Overcoming Classical.
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...I study four scholars that defend “the idea of a European Islam” 3 (Bassam Tibi, Tariq Ramadan, Tareq Oubrou and Abdennour Bidar)....
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...With Aziz Zemmouri and Ian Hamel, Ramadan is not ́demonized, ́ but merely subjected to critical questioning and suspicion, especially with Zemmouri. The latter’s work, Faut-il faire taire Tariq Ramadan? Suivi d”un entretien avec Tariq Ramadam (2005), introduces the controversies around the Swiss scholar, and then gives him a large space to reply in a long interview between the two....
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...mostly about certain points Ramadan raise or those that his detractors feel suspicious about him, without going into a real theological debate with him. Lionel Favrot would follow the same writing method of Fouest in Tariq Ramadan dévoilé: Enquête sur ce islamiste qui sévit dans les banlieues (2004). He goes through the family genealogy of Ramadan, the MB networks, the Islamization of the banlieu, the internationaloization of Islamism, Ramadan ́s “integrist” and anti-modern preaching, 393 anti-semitism, 394 and his doublespeak....
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...Each Part depicts a particular view of European Islam as developed by Bassam Tibi, Tariq Ramadan, Tareq 12 The main reason behind this tentative classification is methodological....
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...With Aziz Zemmouri and Ian Hamel, Ramadan is not ́demonized, ́ but merely subjected to critical questioning and suspicion, especially with Zemmouri. The latter’s work, Faut-il faire taire Tariq Ramadan? Suivi d”un entretien avec Tariq Ramadam (2005), introduces the controversies around the Swiss scholar, and then gives him a large space to reply in a long interview between the two. Ramadan takes the occasion to clarify his discourse over many issues, since he started his activism up to 2006. As to Hamel, he spends two years in an attempt to comprehensively study Ramadan, his family roots, networks, and discourse in La vérité sur Tariq Ramadan: Vers un lobby musulman en Europe? (2007). He finds out that Ramadan, as a skillful speaker, preacher, intellectual,...
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14 Mar 2016
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...This shows that da’wa (mission) from an Islamic perspective will be rewarded by Allah (March, 2007)....
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18 Jan 2018TL;DR: The World Crisis and Underdevelopment as mentioned in this paper examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment, drawing from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment.
Abstract: World Crisis and Underdevelopment examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment. It draws from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment. Its scope is comprehensive, encompassing discussions about development science, philosophical anthropology, global migration, global capitalism and economic markets, human rights, international legal institutions, democratic politics and legitimation, world religions and secularization, and moral philosophy in its many varieties.
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19 Jul 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that European Islam is possible, arguing that the contribution of European Islam has made to the formation of an innovative Islamic theology that is deeply ethicist and modern, and that this constructed European Islamic theology is able to contribute to the various debates that are related to secular-liberal democracies of Western Europe.
Abstract: Suspicions about the integration of Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies in the visibility of anti-Western Islamic discourses of salafi origin, which have monopolized the debate on the "true" Islam, not only among Muslims but also in the eyes of 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 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.
54 citations
01 Sep 2017
TL;DR: This article found a positive relationship between religious beliefs, behavior, and belonging and perceptions of compatibility with American democratic traditions among U.S. Muslims, finding that the most religious are the most likely to believe in political integration in the United States.
Abstract: Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, popular perceptions in the United States, especially among political elites, continue to believe that religious Muslims oppose American democratic traditions and values. While many studies find positive relationships between mosque attendance and civic participation among U.S. Muslims, an empirical and theoretical puzzle continues to exist. What is missing is research that examines the relationships between the multi-dimensional concept of religiosity and how this is associated with public opinion and attitudes towards the American political system among Muslim Americans. Using a unique national survey of Muslim Americans, we find a positive relationship between religious beliefs, behavior, and belonging and perceptions of compatibility with American democratic traditions. Quite simply, the most religious are the most likely to believe in political integration in the United States.
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TL;DR: The authors examined the Islamic foundations for affirming on principled grounds residence, political obligation, and loyalty to a non-Muslim state, and found that such grounds exist even in classical Islamic legal discourses, but also that the concerns of Islamic scholars vindicate political liberalism's claim to successfully accommodate the adherents of certain non-liberal doctrines by refraining from proclaiming controversial metaphysical truth claims.
Abstract: In this article I take up John Rawls’s invitation to investigate the capacity of a given comprehensive ethical doctrine to endorse on principled grounds the liberal terms of social cooperation. In the case of Islamic political ethics, however, far more is at stake in affirming citizenship in a (non-Muslim) liberal democracy than state neutrality and individual autonomy. Islamic legal and political traditions have traditionally held that submission to non-Muslim political authority and bonds of loyalty and solidarity with non-Muslim societies are to be avoided. In this article, I examine the Islamic foundations for affirming on principled grounds residence, political obligation, and loyalty to a non-Muslim state. My research shows not only that such grounds exist even in classical Islamic legal discourses, but also that the concerns of Islamic scholars vindicate political liberalism’s claim to successfully accommodate the adherents of certain nonliberal doctrines by refraining from proclaiming controversial metaphysical truthclaims. P olitical theory has always concerned itself not only with the search for philosophically justifiable normative principles but also with how a social order might overcome the perpetual hindrances to the realization of justice, freedom, or happiness, such as those arising from the defects of human nature. Philosophers from Plato onwards have addressed the ways in which ignorance, greed, selfishness, shortsightedness, amour-propre, superstition, or ideology might be transcended in a just society. In doing so, they have concerned themselves with the fundamental problem of the stability of an ideal political order, or with giving an account of how actual individuals might come to accept and support the normative foundations of a just society. The later work of John Rawls contains a unique contribution to this tradition. For Rawls, in addition to all of the familiar obstacles placed by human nature, a well-ordered society is also threatened by the efforts of persons to advance through the state aims derived from undemocratic or illiberal conceptions of the good (or “comprehensive doctrines”). Such persons are not necessarily ignorant or selfish in the ways conceived by Plato, Hobbes, or Marx. They do not use the values and symbols of a conception of the good simply as a mask or legitimation for material self-interest. Nor does Rawls declare that these conceptions of the good are false, and that that is why they must be overcome or transcended. Rather, however sincere such persons areintheiradherencetocomprehensivedoctrines,they may be fundamentally unreasonable in the sense of being unwilling to “propose and abide by fair terms of cooperation” or by failing to recognize fellow citizens as free and equal. Citizens so motivated will thus have little to no loyalty to a liberal political regime.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors seek to establish what political liberalism demands of Muslim citizens living as minorities in liberal states by way of a doctrinal affirmation of citizenship, and they aim to establish with as much precision as possible when it can be said that there is a consensus on the terms of social cooperation in a liberal society and thus that the comprehensive doctrine in question is providing its adherents with moral reasons for endorsing those terms.
Abstract: In this article I seek to establish what political liberalism demands of Muslim citizens living as minorities in liberal states by way of a doctrinal affirmation of citizenship. This is an inquiry of a special nature. My interests are not directly in what policies a liberal state should have, nor in what practices on the part of citizens are compatible with justice and equality, but rather in what views emerging from a comprehensive doctrine are reasonable responses to the liberal terms of social cooperation. My aim is to establish with as much precision as possible when it can be said that there is a consensus on the terms of social cooperation in a liberal society and thus that the comprehensive doctrine in question is providing its adherents with moral reasons for endorsing those terms. Thus, this is an inquiry into liberal political theory, but one inspired by the special concerns, misgivings and anxieties of a particular comprehensive doctrine.
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Dissertation•
03 Jun 2013
TL;DR: Tariq Ramadan and Tareq Oubrou as discussed by the authors presented theologico-political justifications for European Islam and the Islamic Sources of Law: from Adaptation to Transformation.
Abstract: Bassam Tibi – Political Justifications for Euro-Islam. Islam’s Predicament with Modernity. Cultural Modernity for Religious Reform and Cultural Change: towards Euro –Islam. Tariq Ramadan – Theologico-Political Justifications for European Islam. Renewing the Islamic Sources of Law: from Adaptation to Transformation. European Islam within Radical Reform. Tareq Oubrou and Abdennour Bidar – Theologico-Philosophic Justifications for European Islam. Tareq Oubrou: Geotheology and the Minoriticization of Islam. Abdennour Bidar: from Self Islam to Overcoming Religion. European Islam in Context: Renewal for Perpetual Modernity. European Islam and the Islamic Tradition: Revisionist-Reformist. Conceptualizing the Idea of European Islam: Overcoming Classical.
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