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The Caliphate of Man - Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (Hardcover)
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The Caliphate of Man - Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (Hardcover)
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A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological
transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim
nations undergoing political change. The Arab Spring precipitated a
crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed. In
Turkey they have descended into authoritarianism. In Tunisia they
govern but without the label of "political Islam." Andrew March
explores how, before this crisis, Islamists developed a unique
theory of popular sovereignty, one that promised to determine the
future of democracy in the Middle East. This began with the claim
of divine sovereignty, the demand to restore the shari'a in modern
societies. But prominent theorists of political Islam also advanced
another principle, the Quranic notion that God's authority on earth
rests not with sultans or with scholars' interpretation of written
law but with the entirety of the Muslim people, the umma. Drawing
on this argument, utopian theorists such as Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi and
Sayyid Qutb released into the intellectual bloodstream the doctrine
of the caliphate of man: while God is sovereign, He has appointed
the multitude of believers as His vicegerent. The Caliphate of Man
argues that the doctrine of the universal human caliphate underpins
a specific democratic theory, a kind of Islamic republic of virtue
in which the people have authority over the government and
religious leaders. But is this an ideal regime destined to survive
only as theory?
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