The Islamic secular
This title argues that the meaning of 'secular' in the West and in Islam differ fundamentally. Though the Islamic secular is a 'liberation' from Islam's sacred law, shari'ah, it is neither outside 'religion' nor a rival to it; it seeks neither to discipline no...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Jackson, Sherman A., 1956-, The Islamic secular] (2025) (Louden-Cooke, Samantha)
[Rezension von: Jackson, Sherman A., 1956-, The Islamic secular] (2024) (Zemmin, Florian) |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford scholarship online
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Secularism
/ The Modern
/ Islamic law
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| Further subjects: | B
Islam and secularism
B Religion & beliefs B Religion and state B Religion |
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| Summary: | This title argues that the meaning of 'secular' in the West and in Islam differ fundamentally. Though the Islamic secular is a 'liberation' from Islam's sacred law, shari'ah, it is neither outside 'religion' nor a rival to it; it seeks neither to discipline nor displace religion nor expand its own jurisdiction at religion's expense. The Islamic secular is, in Sherman Jackson's view, a complement to religion - in effect, a 'religious secular.' He makes the case for the Islamic secular on the basis of Islam's own pre-modern juristic tradition and shows how it impacts the relationship between Islam and the modern state, including the Islamic State. "This book argues that the common notion of a fundamental conflict between the secular and the religious cannot be applied to Islam. This is not because Islam rejects the secular in favor of the religious; it is because Islam's concept of the religious includes the secular. This is what is captured by the term "Islamic Secular." Contrary both to the notion that "religion" in Islam equals "sharī'ah," and to the concomitant notion that sharī'ah is the all-encompassing, exclusive metric of assessment in Islam, this book argues that, while Islam is all-encompassing, sharī'ah is bounded. This leaves a space between the limited circumference of sharī'ah and the unlimited circumference of Islam. While both spaces are "religious" in that they come under the adjudicative gaze of the God of Islam, only the shar'ī space draws directly upon sharī'ah and its sources, while the non-shar'ī space does not. In the end, this allows for a "religious secular," a space wherein matters remain "religious" but are not based on or assessed in terms of the content of sharī'ah or its sources. These shar'ī and non-shar'ī elements are not rivals but complements. As such, both "secularism" and "secularization," as non- or anti-religious tropes, are alien to the Islamic Secular"-- |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 15, 2023) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-766181-9 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197661789.001.0001 |
