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What Is Islamic Democracy? The Three Cs Of Islamic Governance, Muqtedar Khan
What Is Islamic Democracy? The Three Cs Of Islamic Governance, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This book chapter explores the three Cs of Islamic Governance; Constitution, Consultation and Consent.
Stigmatization And Racial Selection After September 11, 2001, Patrick Leon Mason, Andrew Matella
Stigmatization And Racial Selection After September 11, 2001, Patrick Leon Mason, Andrew Matella
Patrick L. Mason
During the 2000s Arab and Islamic American racial identity selection was subjected to an exogenous racializing event, viz., public and private reaction to the Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. The Al Qaeda attacks clearly demarcate a period in which there was a structural increase in the intensity of US stigmatization of persons with Islamic religious affiliation and Arab ethnicity. This stigmatization created an exogenous reduction in the expected payoff to acculturation relative to non-acculturation. This paper uses self-identification as white as its measure of acculturation and the fraction of all hate crimes directed at Muslims as its measure …
Has Modernity Failed The Muslim World?, Muqtedar Khan
Has Modernity Failed The Muslim World?, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
Modernity had come to the Muslim World. But it did not deliver. There is no stability, no freedom, no real democracy and no earned prosperity and no scientific vitality in the Muslim World. Perhaps rather than continuing to ask the old question is Islam compatible with modernity, we need to ask has modernity failed Muslims.
What Is Enlightenment? An Islamic Perspective, Muqtedar Khan
What Is Enlightenment? An Islamic Perspective, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This essay draws on Immanuel Kant’s concept of enlightenment as an escape from self- imposed ignorance and argues that a similar concept of enlightenment can be understood within the Muslim context as escape from self-imposed jahiliyyah, which is understood as fear to exercise reason publicly. The article advocates for ijtihad, is critical of Taqlid, and invokes Islamic sources to invest confidence in contemporary use of reason for interpreting Islam.
Discrimination In France, Dylan Kissane
Political Authority In Islam, Muqtedar Khan
Political Authority In Islam, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
The chapter is a survey of various approaches to political authority in Islamic thought.
Political Authority In Islam, Muqtedar Khan
Political Authority In Islam, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
The chapter is a survey of various approaches to political authority in Islamic thought.