RT Book
T1 Islamic legitimacy in a plural Asia
T2 Routledge contemporary Asia series
JF Routledge contemporary Asia series
A2 Reid, Anthony 1939-2025
A2 Gilsenan, Michael 1940-
LA English
PP London u.a.
PB Routledge
YR 2007
ED 1. publ.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1603600973
AB A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. Even in Asia, where such ideas have always been marginal, radical groups are taking the view that scriptural authority requires either Islamic rule (Dar-ul-Islam) or a state of war with the essentially illegitimate authority of non-Muslims or secularists. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context. It draws attention to Asia (east of Afghanistan), as not only the home of the majority of the world's Muslims but also Islam's historic laboratory in dealing with religious pluralism. In Asia, pluralism is not simply a contemporary development of secular democracies, but a long-tested pattern based on both principle and pragmatism. For many centuries, Muslims in Asia have argued about the legitimacy of non-Islamic government over Muslims, and the legitimacy of non-Muslim peoples, polities and rights under Islamic governance. This book analyses such debates and the ways they have been reconciled, in South and Southeast Asia, up to the present. The evidence presented here suggests that Muslims have adapted flexibly and creatively to the pluralism with which they have lived, and are likely to continue to do so. -- Publisher description
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BP63.A1
SN 978-0-415-45173-4
SN 978-0-203-93340-4
K1 Islam : Asia
K1 Religious Pluralism : Islam
K1 Religious Pluralism : Asia
K1 Islam and civil society : Asia
K1 Aufsatzsammlung