Islam after Liberalism
Faisal Devji and Zaheer Kazmi
Abstract
Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilizational fault-line between the Muslim world and the West, however, this relationship also offers the potential for consensus and the possibility of moral and political engagement or compatibility. The existence or extent of this correspondence tends to preoccupy academic as much as popular accounts of such a relationship. This volume looks however to the way in which Muslim politics and s ... More
Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilizational fault-line between the Muslim world and the West, however, this relationship also offers the potential for consensus and the possibility of moral and political engagement or compatibility. The existence or extent of this correspondence tends to preoccupy academic as much as popular accounts of such a relationship. This volume looks however to the way in which Muslim politics and society are defined beyond and indeed after it. Reappraising the “first wave” of Islamic liberalism during the nineteenth century, the book describes the long and intertwined histories of these categories across a large geographical expanse. By drawing upon the contributions of scholars from a variety of disciplines – including philosophy, theology, sociology, politics and history – it explores how liberalism has been criticized and refashioned by Muslim thinkers and movements, to assume a reality beyond the abstractions that define its compatibility with Islam.
Keywords:
Islam,
Liberalism,
Islamic liberalism,
Muslim politics,
Nineteenth century,
Muslim thinkers
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190851279 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2019 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190851279.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Faisal Devji, editor
Oxford University
Zaheer Kazmi, editor
Queen's University Belfast
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