Remaking Muslim Politics
We can sense, Robert Hefner announces in the introduction to this edited volume, “a new dynamic of popular participation and contestative pluralism … inspiring dreams of a Muslim politics that is civil and democratic” (p. 11). Herein lies the book’s singular thesis. Since 9/11, scholars have spille...
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oai:doaj.org-article:b5df64f5678b4b5c815c4cc3f1862d5c2021-12-02T19:41:23ZRemaking Muslim Politics10.35632/ajis.v24i1.15722690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/b5df64f5678b4b5c815c4cc3f1862d5c2007-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1572https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 We can sense, Robert Hefner announces in the introduction to this edited volume, “a new dynamic of popular participation and contestative pluralism … inspiring dreams of a Muslim politics that is civil and democratic” (p. 11). Herein lies the book’s singular thesis. Since 9/11, scholars have spilled enormous quantities of ink in convincing western audiences that radical violence and ideological intolerance do not characterize mainstream Islam. Yet the quest to delineate Islam’s compatibility with democracy often meant ignoring the complexity of ideas within the stream of democratic Muslim thought. This eclectic collection fills this gap, bringing together twelve authors who demonstrate the rise of new Islamic voices promoting civic pluralism within the boundaries of religious tradition. However, they also show that such views have triggered fierce contestation from more conservative interlocutors. In laying out a sweeping map of these battles, the volume performs a necessary service to general scholars of Islamic politics ... Sean L. YomInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 24, Iss 1 (2007) |
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We can sense, Robert Hefner announces in the introduction to this edited
volume, “a new dynamic of popular participation and contestative pluralism
… inspiring dreams of a Muslim politics that is civil and democratic” (p.
11). Herein lies the book’s singular thesis. Since 9/11, scholars have spilled
enormous quantities of ink in convincing western audiences that radical violence
and ideological intolerance do not characterize mainstream Islam. Yet
the quest to delineate Islam’s compatibility with democracy often meant
ignoring the complexity of ideas within the stream of democratic Muslim
thought. This eclectic collection fills this gap, bringing together twelve
authors who demonstrate the rise of new Islamic voices promoting civic pluralism
within the boundaries of religious tradition. However, they also show
that such views have triggered fierce contestation from more conservative interlocutors. In laying out a sweeping map of these battles, the volume performs
a necessary service to general scholars of Islamic politics ...
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