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Validating Secularity in Islam: The Sociological Perspective of the Muslim Intellectual Rafiq al-'Azm (1865-1925)
Säkularität im Islam: Die soziologische Perspektive des muslimischen Intellektuellen Rafiq al-'Azm (1865-1925)
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Abstract Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq’s book al-Islam wa-usul al-hukm (Islam and the foundations of power), published in 1925, is conventionally considered to be the first Islamic argument for secularism in Arabic. Two decades earlier, however, Rafiq al-‘Azm had made the same core argument for the separation of religio... mehr
Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq’s book al-Islam wa-usul al-hukm (Islam and the foundations of power), published in 1925, is conventionally considered to be the first Islamic argument for secularism in Arabic. Two decades earlier, however, Rafiq al-‘Azm had made the same core argument for the separation of religion and politics in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism, which would later come to fiercely attack ‘Abd al-Raziq’s secularism. This article focuses on selected writings by al-‘Azm to illustrate the possibility of validating secularity from within an Islamic discourse. In addition to outlining his argument for the separation of religion and politics, I show that al-‘Azm reformulated Islam as a societal order that is conceptually distinct from Islam as a religion, and that he gave primacy to a sociological perspective on religion. Al-‘Azm was part of an elitist intelligentsia who discussed the issue of the modern order in the transcultural public sphere of colonial Egypt. In a period of conceptual transformations, individuals from the Islamic discursive tradition, like al-‘Azm, used islam and related terms to convey both religion and secular society. The use of islam to refer to both of these concepts might blur the distinction between religion and the secular but should, in al-‘Azm’s case, be read as an Islamic validation of secular order and thus as an Islamic contribution to multiple secularities.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Moderne; Reformismus; Religionssoziologie; Säkularisierung; Intellektueller; Gesellschaftsordnung; politische Faktoren; Islam; Religion; politischer Einfluss
Klassifikation
Religionssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Islamic reformism; Rafiq al-‘Azm; al-Manar; Rashid Rida; secularism; secularity; discursive tradition
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 74-100
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 3
Heftthema
Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)