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Detecting the ideological position of political Islam towards liberal democracy in Muslim countries
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Abstract The question of the correlation between Islam, political Islam and liberal democracy has so far been the most exposed topic in exploring the democratic capacity of political Islam and Islamic societies in general. What is particularly intriguing about the relationship between political Islam and lib... view more
The question of the correlation between Islam, political Islam and liberal democracy has so far been the most exposed topic in exploring the democratic capacity of political Islam and Islamic societies in general. What is particularly intriguing about the relationship between political Islam and liberal democracy is the fact of its westernized triviality that has received a pejorative tone in Islamic political circles. Simplified, the triviality of liberal democracy for the Islamic political campus implies imposing a model of democracy that cannot be fully compatible with the original Muslim notion of society and government. Hence, the following paper analyzes exactly the relations of political Islam to specific inherent categories of liberal democracy such as the rule of law, representative government, the separation of powers and secularism as diferenta specifica of liberal western democratic discourse. Through the methods of induction and deduction, the author will illustrate how appropriate tangent or divergence is illustrated and how this is reflected in the general ideological positioning of political Islam towards liberal democracy in Muslim countries through an axiological and praxeological perspective.... view less
Keywords
Islam; religion; politics; political ideology; constitutional state; secularization; separation of powers; democracy; value-orientation
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Sociology of Religion
Free Keywords
Political Islam; Liberal Democracy; Sharia; Rule of Law; Secularism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 102-115
Journal
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 5 (2020) 3
ISSN
1857-9760
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed