Khaled Abou El Fadl’s Methodology of Reform

Contemporary Islamic legal scholar, Khaled Abou El Fadl, proposes a coherent methodology for the narration of individually formed discourses within the Islamic community against their sublimation by both authoritarian fundamentalism and liberal relativism. In examining his work, this article identif...

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1. VerfasserIn: Slater, Angus M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2016
In: Journal of law, religion and state
Jahr: 2016, Band: 4, Heft: 3, Seiten: 293-321
weitere Schlagwörter:B Khaled Abou El Fadl authority methodology Sharī’ah identity political and social resistance hegemony Islam Foucault queer theory
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Zusammenfassung:Contemporary Islamic legal scholar, Khaled Abou El Fadl, proposes a coherent methodology for the narration of individually formed discourses within the Islamic community against their sublimation by both authoritarian fundamentalism and liberal relativism. In examining his work, this article identifies a tripartite methodology involving a process of de-legitimization for the current hegemonic narrative, a re-presentation of plurality both possible and existent, and an evaluation of this plurality in light of the broader tradition. Abou El Fadl’s work serves as the building block of a political and social form of resistance to the homogenization of identity and meaning within society, which allows for the narration of alternative discourses to those that are currently hegemonic, whether within the state as a whole or within a religious or social tradition. This resistance, brought about through the author’s structural methodology, aims to offer insights for the development of a notion of state-individual negotiation and identity formation.
ISSN:2212-4810
Enthält:In: Journal of law, religion and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22124810-00403003