Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 647-656
ISSN: 1552-7476
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In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 647-656
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 647-656
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 647-656
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 647-656
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Introduction: a secular or a religious state? -- The legalization of hisba in the case of Nasr Abu Zayd -- The indeterminacies of secular power: sovereignty, public order, and family -- A paradox of Islamic authority in modern Egypt -- Law's suspicion -- What is a fatwa?: authority, tradition, and the care of self -- Islamist lawyers in the Egyptian emergency state: a different language of justice?
In: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
The central question of the Arab Spring - what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East - has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In Questioning Secularism, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning of secularism itself and the ambiguities that lie at its heart. Drawing on a precedent-setting case arising from the family law courts -- the last courts in Egypt to use Shari`a law -- Agrama shows that secularism is a historical phenomenon that works through a series of paradoxes that it creates. Digging beneath the perceived differences between the West and Middle East, he highlights secularism's dependence on the law and the problems that arise from it: the necessary involvement of state sovereign power in managing the private spiritual lives of citizens and the irreducible set of legal ambiguities such a relationship creates. Navigating a complex landscape between private and public domains, Questioning Secularism lays important groundwork for understanding the real meaning of secularism as it affects the real freedoms of a citizenry, an understanding of the utmost importance for so many countries that are now urgently facing new political possibilities.
In: Political theology, Band 23, Heft 6, S. 610-621
ISSN: 1743-1719
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 495-523
ISSN: 1475-2999
In this essay I offer a thesis about secularism as a modern historical phenomenon, through a consideration of state politics, law, and religion in contemporary Egypt. Egypt seems hardly a place for theorizing about modern secularity. For it is a state where politics and religion seem to constantly blur together, giving rise to continual conflict, and it thus seems, at best, only precariously secular. These facts, however, go to the heart of my thesis: that secularism itself incessantly blurs together religion and politics, and that its power relies crucially upon the precariousness of the categories it establishes. Egypt's religious-political ambiguities, I argue, are expressions of deeper indeterminacies at the very foundation of secular power. In what follows, I elaborate my thesis, how it differs from other, similar sounding arguments, and the shift in perspective on secularism that it entails. I begin with a famous Egyptian apostasy case.
In: Politics of Religious Freedom, S. 301-312