Tag: secularism
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Another India: Rethinking Muslim Politics in Postcolonial India
Pratinav Anil’s book, Another India, challenges the narrative of Nehruvian secularism protecting Muslims in post-1947 India, arguing that it favored silence and marginalization.
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The Metaphysics of Palestine
Taha begins his lecture by declaring that political analysts, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists—even if they are pro-Palestine—have engaged in secular violence to Palestine by erasing the ghayb in their analysis of Palestinian history. The world of the unseen—or the ghayb in Quranic idiom—is a critical feature of discussing the land, and by assigning Palestine into…
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Conceptualization of Islam as a ‘Religion’ and Possibility of the Secularist/Islamist Binary
The history of the modern Middle East is often narrated as a story of power struggles between competing ideologies. One such set of competing ideologies is Islamism and secularism. The aim of this paper is not to explore these ideologies in the light of Middle Eastern history and argue in favor of either one of…
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El secularismo y el símil de la telaraña de la sura al-’ankabut
El símil de la tela de araña que aparece en la sura Al-‘Ankabut del Corán se refiere a los destinatarios del mensaje de Dios antes de la época del Profeta Muhammad ﷺ.
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Sekülerizm Seküler Midir?
ın sorgulanması, tüm kültürlerde doğal ve genel olarak, kişinin kalbinde ve aklında önemli yeri işgal etmektedir. Hepimiz dünyadaki yerimizi, ailelerimiz ve arkadaşlarımızın bizim için ne ifade ettiğini ve hayatımızda ne kadar süre kalacaklarını merak ediyoruz. Kaçınılmaz olarak, hayatın fırtınalı havasına karşı elimizde tutabileceğimiz bir gerçeklik, saflık ve değişmezlik arıyoruz. Bu bitmeyen ve birbirine karışmış sorular…
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Islam in a Post-Secular Age
Post-secular theory counters the secularization thesis, which taught that religion would wither away as modernity gets older. A post-secular awareness acknowledges the perseverance of religion in modernity. The post-secular refers to a change in consciousness attributed primarily to three phenomena: citizens’ awareness of their secularity within the global horizon, an awareness of religious influences both…
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¿Pueden los musulmanes europeos resistirse a la asimilación?
Cualquier respuesta musulmana a la situación debe preguntarse primero cómo puede un Estado tolerar el pluralismo sin sentirse fundamentalmente amenazado. Para ello, una incursión en la historia global puede resultar valiosa…
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Can European Muslims Resist Assimilation?
The Charter of Principles of French Islam declares the religion to be compatible with France’s particular brand of secularism, laïcité, and its attendant values; in other words, it represents the subjugated and heavily privatised form of the religion that President Macron wishes to see. In January, a close advisor to Macron warned that Muslim organizations…
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Horoscopes, Manifestation, and Secular Religion
Manifestation ignores the will of God and reducing the human spirit to “energies” tells us enough about the extent to which we can reconcile these concepts with Islam. Some Muslims have tried to co-opt the essence of manifestation by adding in sha Allah to their self-affirmations. It is argued that, by adopting this oral practice,…
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الحجاب: ليس جسدي، ليس اختياري
بدأتُ ارتداء الخمار (غطاء الرأس الإسلامي، ويعرف بالحجاب) عندما كنت في العاشرة من العمر. كنت قد تأثرت بصديقاتٍ متحجبات أكبر مني سنًا، وآمنت حينها بأنه الوقت المناسب لارتداء الحجاب أيضًا والعمل بما يقتضيه. وبعد مضي أكثر من عشر سنين مَنَّ الله تعالى عليَّ بالاستمرار في الارتقاء في مسيرتي نحو الامتثال لمقتضيات الحجاب ظاهرًا وباطنًا. إنها…