Faisal Devji and Zaheer Kazmi ed. – Islam after Liberalism

Description

Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilizational fault-line between the Muslim world and the West, however, this relationship also offers the potential for consensus and the possibility of moral and political engagement or compatibility. The existence or extent of this correspondence tends to preoccupy academic as much as popular accounts of such a relationship. This volume looks however to the way in which Muslim politics and society are defined beyond and indeed after it. Reappraising the “first wave” of Islamic liberalism during the nineteenth century, the book describes the long and intertwined histories of these categories across a large geographical expanse. By drawing upon the contributions of scholars from a variety of disciplines – including philosophy, theology, sociology, politics and history – it explores how liberalism has been criticized and refashioned by Muslim thinkers and movements, to assume a reality beyond the abstractions that define its compatibility with Islam.

Table of contents

• Introduction
  Faisal Devji and Zaheer Kazmi
• Origins
  • Arabic Thought in the Liberal Cage
    Hussein Omar
  • Corrupting Politics
    Nadia Bou Ali
  • Illiberal Islam
    Faisal Devji
• Debates
  • Postcolonial Prophets
    Neguin Yavari
  • A New Deal Between Mankind and its Gods
    Abdennour Bidar
  • The Dissonant Politics of Religion, Circulation and Civility in the Sociology of Islam
    Armando Salvatore
  • Islamic Democracy by Numbers
    Zaheer Kazmi
• The State
  • Bourgeois Islam and Muslims Without Mosques
    Carool Kersten
  • Islamic Secularism and the Question of Freedom
    Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
  • Militancy, Monarchy and the Struggle to Desacralise Kingship in Arabia
    Ahmed Dailami
  • Islamotopia
    Michael Muhammad Knight
• Resistance
  • Preliminary Thoughts on Art and Society
    Sadia Abbas
  • The Political Meanings of Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam
    Edward E. Curtis IV
  • Post-Islamism as Neoliberalisation
    Peter Mandaville