Ambiguous Secularism: Islam, Laïcité and the State in Niger
In: Civilisations: revue internationale d'anthropologie et de sciences humaines, Heft 58-2, S. 41-58
ISSN: 2032-0442
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In: Civilisations: revue internationale d'anthropologie et de sciences humaines, Heft 58-2, S. 41-58
ISSN: 2032-0442
In: Revue française d'études politiques africaines, Band 14, S. 86-107
ISSN: 0035-3027
In: Terres et gens d'islam
In: Esprit: comprendre le monde qui vient, S. 143-151
ISSN: 0014-0759
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In: Studia politica: Romanian political science review ; revista română de ştiinţă politică, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 467-475
The positive, unifying ideological resources of liberal and progressive Islamic interpretations deserve more than ever to be exploited in the contemporary socio-political context. Their conceptual tools, principles and theses could solve the conflictual cleavage, politically manipulated, between Islam and Western modernity, without repudiating the references to an Islamic paradigm. Therefore, liberal and progressive Islamic understandings could avoid the recent superficial oscillation between two ideological -artificially constructed- extremes, namely either confining the discussions to the secular, colonialist or postcolonialist perspectives, or promoting the defensive opportunist neotraditionalist Islamic approaches, specific to the nationalist movements of the last century so-called Islamic revival. Liberal Islam does not fully adopt all liberal theses and does not obediently imitate Western philosophy. Liberal Islamic understandings are defined by the opposition against teocracy and by supporting the democracy. Women, minorities and non-Muslims' rights in Muslim-majority countries, freedom of thought and trust in human progress, are other essential tenets that are fundamented on contemporary understandings of the major Islamic sources. Trying to correct some excesses that the liberal Muslims were accused of, but maintaining the reformist tendencies, progressive Muslims' approach is centered on a "multiple critiqueˮ ‒ a simultaneous critique of the diverse discourses and communities in which Muslims are situated. Not only the authoritarian constructions of literalist, puritanist Muslims, the violation of human rights, freedom of expression and of religion, the oppression of women in some Muslim countries are condemned and deconstructed, but also some political, economic, intellectual hegemonic Western aspects of modernity. In Romania these contemporary tendencies of interpreting Islam are not yet represented at a community level.
In: Le monde diplomatique, Band 48, Heft 565, S. 31
ISSN: 0026-9395, 1147-2766
In: Le monde diplomatique, Band 46, Heft 543, S. 20-21
ISSN: 0026-9395, 1147-2766
In: Islam et laïcité
In: Après-demain: journal trimestriel de documentation politique, S. 23-26
ISSN: 0003-7176
In: al- maǧalla al-ǧazā'irīya li'l-ʿulūm al-qaḍā'īya, al-iqtiṣādīya wa-'s-siyāsīya: Revue algérienne des sciences juridiques, économiques et politiques, Band 12, S. 97-145
ISSN: 0035-0699
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