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A unique interreligious dialogue provides needed context for deeper
understanding of interfaith relations, from ancient to modern times
Freedom is far from straightforward as a topic of comparative
theology. While it is often identified with modernity and even
postmodernity, freedom has long been an important topic for
reflection by both Christians and Muslims, discussed in both the
Bible and the Qur'an. Each faith has a different way of engaging
with the idea of freedom shaped by the political context of their
beginnings. The New Testament emerged in a region under occupation
by the Roman Empire, whereas the Qur'an was first received in
tribal Arabia, a stateless environment with political freedom.
Freedom: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, edited by Lucinda
Mosher, considers how Christian and Muslim faith communities have
historically addressed many facets of freedom. The book presents
essays, historical and scriptural texts, and reflections. Topics
include God's freedom, human freedom to obey God, autonomy versus
heteronomy, autonomy versus self-governance, freedom from
incapacitating addiction and desire, hermeneutic or discursive
freedom vis-a-vis scripture and tradition, religious and political
freedom, and the relationship between personal conviction and
public order. The rich insights expressed in this unique interfaith
discussion will benefit readers-from students and scholars, to
clerics and community leaders, to politicians and policymakers-who
will gain a deeper understanding of how these two communities
define freedom, how it is treated in both religious and secular
texts, and how to make sense of it in the context of our
contemporary lives.
Political Islam, to be distinguished from Islam as a culture or a
religion, and from Islamic Fundamentalism, is an increasingly
important feature of the western political scene. The ideologies of
Political Islam reflect the fact that some of their adherents live
and work within a Western socio-political context. With a range of
outstanding contributors that includes academics and human rights
advocates this book tackles the diversity of Islamist thinking and
practice in various Western countries and explores their
transnational connections in both East and West. The book analyses
developments in Islamist thinking and activities, and their
connections to the latest global political and economic trends, and
discusses future evolutions of the ideology and its manifestations.
A unique interreligious dialogue provides needed context for deeper
understanding of interfaith relations, from ancient to modern times
Freedom is far from straightforward as a topic of comparative
theology. While it is often identified with modernity and even
postmodernity, freedom has long been an important topic for
reflection by both Christians and Muslims, discussed in both the
Bible and the Qur'an. Each faith has a different way of engaging
with the idea of freedom shaped by the political context of their
beginnings. The New Testament emerged in a region under occupation
by the Roman Empire, whereas the Qur'an was first received in
tribal Arabia, a stateless environment with political freedom.
Freedom: Christian and Muslim Perspectives, edited by Lucinda
Mosher, considers how Christian and Muslim faith communities have
historically addressed many facets of freedom. The book presents
essays, historical and scriptural texts, and reflections. Topics
include God's freedom, human freedom to obey God, autonomy versus
heteronomy, autonomy versus self-governance, freedom from
incapacitating addiction and desire, hermeneutic or discursive
freedom vis-a-vis scripture and tradition, religious and political
freedom, and the relationship between personal conviction and
public order. The rich insights expressed in this unique interfaith
discussion will benefit readers-from students and scholars, to
clerics and community leaders, to politicians and policymakers-who
will gain a deeper understanding of how these two communities
define freedom, how it is treated in both religious and secular
texts, and how to make sense of it in the context of our
contemporary lives.
Political sociology has struggled with predicting the next turn of
transformation in the MENA countries after the 2011 Uprisings. Arab
activists did not articulate explicitly any modalities of their
desired system, although their slogans ushered to a
fully-democratic society. These unguided Uprisings showcase an
open-ended freedom-to question after Arabs underwent their
freedom-from struggle from authoritarianism. The new conflicts in
Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Libya have fragmented shar'iya
(legitimacy) into distinct conceptualizations: "revolutionary
legitimacy," "electoral legitimacy," "legitimacy of the street,"
and "consensual legitimacy." This volume examines whether the
Uprisings would introduce a replica of the European Enlightenment
or rather stimulate an Arab/Islamic awakening with its own cultural
specificity and political philosophy. By placing Immanuel Kant in
Tahrir Square, this book adopts a comparative analysis of two
enlightenment projects: one Arab, still under construction, with
possible progression toward modernity or regression toward
neo-authoritarianism, and one European, shaped by the past two
centuries. Mohammed D. Cherkaoui and the contributing authors use a
hybrid theoretical framework drawing on three tanwiri
(enlightenment) philosophers from different eras: Ibn Rushd, known
in the west as Averroes (the twelfth century), Immanuel Kant (the
eighteenth century), and Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri (the twentieth
century). The authors propose a few projections about the outcome
of the competition between an Islamocracy vision and what Cherkaoui
terms as a Demoslamic vision, since it implies the Islamist
movements' flexibility to reconcile their religious absolutism with
the prerequisites of liberal democracy. This book also traces the
patterns of change which point to a possible Arab Axial Age. It
ends with the trials of modernity and tradition in Tunisia and an
imaginary speech Kant would deliver at the Tunisian Parliament
after those vibrant debates of the new constitution in 2014.
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