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Islamic Liberalism (Paperback)
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Islamic Liberalism (Paperback)
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The resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in the 1980s influenced
many in the Islamic world to reject Western norms of liberal
rationality and to return, instead, to their own tradition for
political and cultural inspiration. This rejection of foreign
thought threatens to end the centuries-long dialogue between Islam
and the West, a dialogue that has produced a nascent Middle Eastern
liberalism, along with many less desirable forms of discourse. With
"Islamic Liberalism," Leonard Binder hopes to reinvigorate that
dialogue, asking whether political liberalism can take root in the
Middle East without a vigorous Islamic liberalism. But, Binder
asks, is an Islamic liberalism possible?
The Islamic political community presents special problems to the
development of an indigenous liberalism. That community is
conceived of as divinely ordained, and its notions of the good are
to be derived from scriptural revelation, not arrived at through
rational discourse. Liberal politics would seem to stand little
chance of surviving in such an atmosphere, let alone thriving.
Binder responds to the challenge of Edward Said's critique of
Orientalism, of a range of neo-Marxian development theorists, of
Sayyid Qutb's fundamentalist vision, of Samir Amin's vision of
Egypt's role in the Arab awakening, of Tariq al-Bishri's new
populism, of Zaki Najib Mahmud's pragmatism, and the structuralism
of Arkoun and Laroui. The deconstruction of these varied texts
produces a number of persuasive hermeneutical conclusions that are
sequentially woven together in a critical argument that refocuses
our attention on the central question of political freedom and
democracy. In the course of constructing this argument, Binder
reopens the dialogue between Western modernity and Islamic
authenticity and reveals the surprising extent to which there is a
convergent interest in liberal, democratic, civil society. Finally,
in a concluding chapter, he addresses the prospects for liberalism
in the three major bourgeois states of Islam--Egypt, Turkey, and
Iran.
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