Traditional Secularism v. Modern Secularism A Word on the Nature of Fiqh and the Related Constitutional System
This research attempts to put forward an argument against the claim that the current legal/political system of Iran is undergoing a re-secularization process. It is argued, by focusing on concepts of the secular and the sacred/religious, that the system was never de-secularized by the Islamic Revolu...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2023
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Critical research on religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-62 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Iran
/ Revolution
/ Secularization
/ Fikh
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa TK Recent history XA Law |
Further subjects: | B
Exogenous
B Endogenous B the Religious B Fiqh B Sacred B Modernism B Secularism |
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Summary: | This research attempts to put forward an argument against the claim that the current legal/political system of Iran is undergoing a re-secularization process. It is argued, by focusing on concepts of the secular and the sacred/religious, that the system was never de-secularized by the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The reason derives from the facts that the main allegedly religious content of the new system is per se a secular entity, and that the existing constitutional structure is overwhelmingly secular. The content overwhelmingly originates in fiqh which is argued to be a secular entity, i.e., an amoral one, as it accommodates immorality. It is then claimed that what occurred by the Revolution was indeed the triumph of a traditional secularism over an exogenous modern secular establishment. Therefore, since the early months of the new regime a process of re-modernization, an endogenous one, has gradually taken form. |
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ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/20503032221148469 |