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Questioning Secularism (Paperback)
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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.
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