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

Main Author: Ali, Souad T.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, c2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10415925
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Background and overview
  • Classical juristic theories of the caliphate : from idealism to accommodationism
  • The caliphate in the colonial era
  • Ali Abd al-Raziq's intellectual formation and his place among the disciples of Muhammad Abduh
  • The central message
  • The ruling system in the time of the prophet
  • Critiques of Abd al-Raziq's position
  • The implications of Abd al-Raziq's study for the debate over Islam and politics.