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Islam and the foundations of political power
The first English translation of this controversial essay that challenged fundamental ideas about political power.
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The Challenge of Pluralism
Current popular and academic discussions make certain assumptions regarding Islam and its lack of compatibility with pluralism. Some notable liberal thinkers have even argued that pluralism itself is inherently antithetical to Islam. This volume addresses these assumptions by bringing clarity to some of its key suppositions and conjectures.
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Tunisia: Ennahda’s New Course
At a stadium-filling rally outside Tunis on 20 May 2016, Tunisia's Ennahda (Renaissance) party made news of an unfamiliar type. The Islamist group, which had been forced underground for decades by dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and then had won the first free election after his fall, only to lose power at the ballot box a few years later, announced that it had decided to transform itself. Ennahda has changed from an ideological movement engaged in the struggle for identity to a protest movement against the authoritarian regime and now to a national democratic party, founder Rachid Ghannouchi told the crowd. They must keep religion far from political struggles. In order to accomplish that distancing, party members heard, Ennahda as a political and electoral formation would henceforth be separate from Ennahda as a religious, social, and cultural movement. Ennahda in politics would be a party like the others, embracing the civil laws that define politics as a secular concern.
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The Languages of the Arab Revolutions
The upheavals that have been shaking the Arab-Muslim world are revolutions in discourse as well as in the streets. Arabs are using not only traditional and religious vocabularies, but also a new set of expressions that are modern and represent popular aspirations. We now seem to be at a moment when large strata in Arab societies (and in developing countries more broadly) have reached a state of real disenchantment with utopias, and seem to be ready for other forms of political participation. The conviction that there are alternatives to the kinds of regimes that have for so long imposed themselves on Arab societies—that life under this or that brand of dictatorship and unaccountable rule emphatically does not have to be the Arabs' fate—seems to have taken hold of the collective imagination.
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A New Form of Religious Consciousness?
Scholars of Muslim intellectual movements have described two predominant “moments” since the late nineteenth century. The first is widely seen as the reformist moment, and the second the moment of fundamentalism. Scholars in both Muslim and non-Muslim societies have been engaged in intense discussions about the relationship between these moments, debating whether the transition from the first to the second represents continuity or rupture.¹
The continuity argument sees reformism as having paved the way for fundamentalism, which simply radicalized insights first developed under the banner of reform. For the rupture argument, reformism emerges from a fascination with modernity and culminates
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