A religion, not a state : Ali Abd al-Raziq's Islamic justification of political secularism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ali, Souad Tagelsir
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, ©2009
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Background and overview
  • Classical juristic theories of the caliphate : from idealism to accommodationism
  • The caliphate in the colonial era
  • Ali ʻAbd al-Raziq's intellectual formation and his place among the disciples of Muhammad ʻAbduh
  • The central argument
  • The ruling system in the time of the prophet
  • Critiques of ʻAbd al-Raziq's position
  • The implications of ʻAbd al-Raziq's study for the debate over Islam and politics