On Muslim Democracy

Essays and Dialogues
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-766687-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Many Muslim intellectuals and political activists have begun to move beyond classical political Islam to embrace a more pluralistic, democratic order by developing the concept of "Muslim democracy." Perhaps the most prominent example is the Tunisian Ennahda Party, which declared itself to no longer be "Islamist" but a "Muslim Democratic" party in 2016. While there has been some scholarship on the phenomenon of "Muslim democracy," this book represents the first volume in English to offer a translation of primary source texts elaborating its ideological contours.

The head of the Ennahda Party, and an internationally prominent Muslim political thinker and intellectual, Rached Ghannouchi is known around the world as the preeminent theorist of a reconciliation between modern Islamic political thought and democratic theory. On Muslim Democracy gathers a number of Ghannouchi's most important essays, making them available in English for the first time. The book also includes a lengthy philosophical-theological dialogue between Ghannouchi and American political theorist Andrew March. In the dialogues, March and Ghannouchi discuss the influences on and evolution of Ghannouchi's thought, and the meaning of concepts like democracy, pluralism, justice, and law across Islamic and Western philosophical traditions.

This volume presents a well-rounded view into the influential work of Rached Ghannouchi, further supported by previously unpublished, illuminating conversations on critical topics in Muslim politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghannouchi, Rached

Weitere Mitwirkende

March, Andrew F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: "From Islamic Democracy to Muslim Democracy: Rached Ghannouchi in Thought and Action" by Andrew F. March

- Essays on Freedom, Democracy, and Constitutionalism (by Rached Ghannouchi)

- Chapter 1: Basic Freedoms in Islam

- Chapter 2: The Dialectic of Unity, Difference and Political Pluralism in Islam

- Chapter 3: When Is Islam the Solution?

- Chapter 4: Freedom First

- Chapter 5: Between Sayyid Qutb and Malek Bennabi: Ten Points

- Chapter 6: Islam and Citizenship

- Chapter 7: The Problems of Contemporary Islamist Discourse

- Chapter 8: Secularism and the Relation between Religion and the State from the Perspective of the Ennahda Party

- Chapter 9: The Implications and Requirements of a Post-Revolutionary Constitution

- Chapter 10: Human Rights in Islam

- Philosophical-Theological Dialogues on Democracy, Pluralism, and Islam: Rached Ghannouchi and Andrew F. March

- Biography and Formation

- Democracy, Sovereignty, and Morality

- The Universal Caliphate, Democracy, and the Meaning of the Shari'a

- Freedom, Pluralism, and Toleration

Über Autor(innen)

Rached Ghannouchi is one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers, who served as speaker of the Tunisian Parliament between 2019 and 2021. He has written dozens of books in Arabic, many of which have been translated into other languages, including Public Freedoms in the Islamic State, which has just been published in English.

Andrew F. March is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has also taught political theory and Islamic political thought at Harvard, Yale and NYU. He is the author of The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought and Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus.