The caliphate of man: popular sovereignty in modern Islamic thought
Klappentext: The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed. In Turkey they have descended into authoritarianism. In Tunisia they govern but without the label of "political Islam." Andrew March explores how, before this crisis, Islamists deve...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Political theology
/ Sovereignty
/ Democracy
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| Further subjects: | B
Ummah (Islam)
B Religion B Mittlerer Osten B North Africa B Islam and politics B Islamic countries Politics and government B Near East B Islam and state B Role B Function B Islam B State B Ideology B Development B Islamic fundamentalism B Legitimacy B Society B Caliphate B Meaning |
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| Summary: | Klappentext: The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed. In Turkey they have descended into authoritarianism. In Tunisia they govern but without the label of "political Islam." Andrew March explores how, before this crisis, Islamists developed a unique theory of popular sovereignty, one that promised to determine the future of democracy in the Middle East. This began with the claim of divine sovereignty, the demand to restore the sharīʻa in modern societies. But prominent theorists of political Islam also advanced another principle, the Quranic notion that God's authority on earth rests not with sultans or with scholars' interpretation of written law but with the entirety of the Muslim people, the umma. Drawing on this argument, utopian theorists such as Abū'l-Aʻlā Mawdūdī and Sayyid Quṭb released into the intellectual bloodstream the doctrine of the caliphate of man: while God is sovereign, He has appointed the multitude of believers as His vicegerent. The Caliphate of Man argues that the doctrine of the universal human caliphate underpins a specific democratic theory, a kind of Islamic republic of virtue in which the people have authority over the government and religious leaders. But is this an ideal regime destined to survive only as theory?-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0674987837 |