Suchergebnisse

The article explores the concept of "Kazakh Islam" in the sociopolitical rhetoric of modern Kazakhstan. The change in the state's policy regarding Islam, which is gradually acquiring new meanings in the changing contexts of national construction is noticed. Four strategies for the construction of "Kazakh Islam" are identified and analyzed: state, political, theological, scientific-journalistic, each of which has its own language and logic of argumentation. The state strategy is focused on the elimination of religious topics from public discourse. The political one is actualized during the election period and serves as the basis for discussion of Kazakh identity. The theological one is focused on including a new concept in a wide ideological Islamic context. The scientific-journalistic one seeks to fill the traditional form of Kazakh Islam with modernization meanings. The separation of religious and secular areas in the daily, routine activities of the state and the church is fully consistent with the concept of secularization. But everything changes when it comes to the most generalized political categories, especially the nation. In the space of nationalism, secularization is losing its power, giving rise to semantic constructions that look absurd, both from the standpoint of religion and from the point of view of the state. The described definitions of "Kazakh Islam" show that it is impossible to consider religious and secular ideology as competitors pursuing diametrically opposite goals within the framework of national building practices. The ideology of "Kazakh Islam" cannot be strictly fixed, since in this way it would lose all of its consolidating potential. As a result, we are dealing with a set of contradictory rhetoric, which is united by the legitimizing force of "nation" and "god". The organic complementarity and interchangeability of these concepts reveals the complex and dynamic connection of religion and nationalism in promoting and legitimizing the meaning of the existence of the Kazakh state.

2. The Making of the Last ProphetSources; Muhammad at Mecca; Muhammad at Medina; Muhammad and the Jews of Medina; Muhammad's Wives; The Return to Mecca and Death of Muhammad; The Making of the Last Prophet; Polemical Literature Against Muhammad; The Deeds and Sayings of Muhammad: The Genre of Hadith; Representing Muhammad; 3. The Quran: The Base Narrative; Overview; Traditional Accounts; The Critical View; The Linguistic Matrix of the Ancient Near East; Why Don't Muslims Have an "Old Testament"?; Messages and Contents; The Inimitability of the Quran; The Quran in Muslim Life

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Woman- Led Friday Prayer -- 2. Women Leading Prayers -- 3. Gender Justice and Qurʾanic Exegesis -- 4. History, Women's Rights, and Islamic Law -- 5. Authority, Tradition, and Community -- 6. Space, Leadership, and Voice -- 7. Media, Representation(s), Politics -- 8. Memoirs, Narratives, and Marketing -- 9. Covers and Other Matters -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Seule la démarche matérialiste en histoire permet de réfuter radicalement les essentialismes, tel que « l'orientalisme » en dépit de la critique infondée de Marx par Edward Said. L'attitude politique de Marx et Engels envers la religion reste d'actualité. Cependant, la tradition marxiste est déficitaire dans le domaine de la sociologie de la religion. Il faut intégrer d'autres apports, dont le concept durkheimien d'anomie, pour comprendre la résurgence du religieux contemporaine du tournant néolibéral. Tandis que le christianisme des origines se prête facilement à une lecture de gauche, la théologie islamique, et notamment sa version ultraorthodoxe propagée par le royaume saoudien, favorise une lecture intégriste combattante. Il est périlleux pour les marxistes de se placer sur le terrain de l'exégèse en islam au lieu de s'en tenir à la séparation entre politique et religion.

Introduction / Paul Nesbitt-Larking 1. - Reflections on the Journey / Nawaz Tahir16. - 1. Democracy and Islam: The Incompatible Puzzle / Maryam A. al-Sayyed 20. - 2. Islam and Democracy in the Thought of Fazlur Rahman and Sayyid Abuʻl-A'la Mawdudi / Jon Armajani 37. - 3. Beyond Jamaat-e-Islami: The Political Rise of the Deobandis, the Mystic Leaders, and Islamism in Bangladesh / Humayun Kabir 50. - 4. From the Canadian Shari'a Debates to the Arab World: Developing a Qurʻan-Based Theology of Democracy / Nevin Reda 78. - 5. Kharijites and Qarmatians: Islamic Pre-Democratic Thought, a Political-Theological Analysis / Marco Demichelis101. - 6. Could Civil Marriage Help "Preserve Religion" in Muslim-Majority Countries? / Ingrid Mattson128. - 7. Fragmented Egyptian Islamism: Contesting Islamist Theories and Practice / Gillian Kennedy 147. - 8. Framing Islam and Democracy: Civic Engagement in a Canadian Muslim Organization / Katherine Bullock 171. - 9. Islam and Democracy: The Political Culture of Muslims in Europe / Sabrina de Regt 195. - 10. Islam and Democracy: Voices of Muslims amongst Us / Davide Tacchini and Amédée Turner 228. - 11. Islam and Democracy: Prospects and Pathways / Susan Khazaeli and Daniel Stockemer 242. - 12. Religiosity and Support for Democracy: A Contribution to the Compatibility Debate Through a Comparative Perspective / Nazli Çağin Bilgili 263. - Closing Reflection / Mahdi Tourage and Jonathan Geen 292. - Conclusion / Nawaz Tahir and Ingrid Mattson 296