Islam and Civil Society
Book Reviewed: Sohail H. Hashmi, ed. Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict. Foreword by Jack Miles. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. 227 pages. This edited volume is a welcome addition to the growing literature of Islamic political ethics. These col...
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oai:doaj.org-article:3d454e2a98f94f5eb734743097fa5e592021-12-02T17:26:16ZIslam and Civil Society2690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/3d454e2a98f94f5eb734743097fa5e592003-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/3031https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Book Reviewed: Sohail H. Hashmi, ed. Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict. Foreword by Jack Miles. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. 227 pages. This edited volume is a welcome addition to the growing literature of Islamic political ethics. These collected essays address some of the most difficult and urgent issues facing the Islamic world today. Political rule, pluralism, civil society, nation-states, constitutionalism, and the religio-ethical foundations oflslamic politics are just a few of the issues that the contributors analyze in their respective chapters. The essays' overall tone is affirmative, for the apparent tension between Islamic politics and the universally accepted values of democracy and civil society is reducible to historical and political factors rather than to an innate incompatibility between the two. While there is some wisdom in emphasizing this, it considerably weakens the articles' critical nature. Given the political situation of present-day Muslim countries, it may be considered a luxury to question the virtues of parliamentary democracy, openness, and civil society. Nevertheless, a selective reading of both the Islamic tradition and the modern notions of open society is not sufficient for reconstructing an Islamic political ethics that will be legitimate in the eyes of most Muslims as well as responding to the pressing issues of modern politics and international relations. The book under review is a solid step in this direction, but falls short of going beyond the "paradigm of compatibility." With the exception of Hasan Hanafi's essay, others seem to assume a fixed and standard definition of democracy, civil society, and pluralism without giving any indepth analyses of these concepts ... Ibrahim KalinInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 20, Iss 2 (2003) |
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Book Reviewed: Sohail H. Hashmi, ed. Islamic Political Ethics: Civil
Society, Pluralism, and Conflict. Foreword by Jack Miles. Princeton and
Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. 227 pages.
This edited volume is a welcome addition to the growing literature of
Islamic political ethics. These collected essays address some of the most
difficult and urgent issues facing the Islamic world today. Political rule, pluralism,
civil society, nation-states, constitutionalism, and the religio-ethical
foundations oflslamic politics are just a few of the issues that the contributors
analyze in their respective chapters.
The essays' overall tone is affirmative, for the apparent tension
between Islamic politics and the universally accepted values of democracy
and civil society is reducible to historical and political factors rather
than to an innate incompatibility between the two. While there is some
wisdom in emphasizing this, it considerably weakens the articles' critical
nature.
Given the political situation of present-day Muslim countries, it may be
considered a luxury to question the virtues of parliamentary democracy,
openness, and civil society. Nevertheless, a selective reading of both the
Islamic tradition and the modern notions of open society is not sufficient for reconstructing an Islamic political ethics that will be legitimate in the eyes of most Muslims as well as responding to the pressing issues of modern politics and international relations. The book under review is a solid step in this direction, but falls short of going beyond the "paradigm of compatibility." With the exception of Hasan Hanafi's essay, others seem to assume a fixed and standard definition of democracy, civil society, and pluralism without giving any indepth analyses of these concepts ...
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