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Subject(s)

• Islam [Browse]
• Islam and politics [Browse]
• Muslims [Browse]

Editor

• Harmouzi, Nouh el [Browse]
• Whetstone, Linda [Browse]

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 20, 2016).

Contents

• The authors; Foreword; Acknowledgement; 1 Introduction; The contributions of the authors; 2 The condition of social, political and economic thinking in the Islamic world from a classical liberal perspective; Freedom, religion and Islam; Can Islam as a religion be separate from politics?; The current situation of social, political and economic thought in Islamic countries; What are the most basic errors in Muslim thought now and how can they be changed?; Conclusion; References
• 3 Reason versus tradition, free will versus fate, interpretation versus literalism: intellectual underpinnings of the negative outlook for the Muslim worldIntroduction; Miserable outlook of the Muslim world: poverty within abundance?; Political and intellectual reasons behind the poor performance of Muslim countries; Main schools of thought in the Muslim world; Reason versus tradition, Ra'y versus Hadith, free will versus fate, interpretation versus literalism; Intellectual conflicts with political roots and implications
• Conclusion: destructive consequences of the conflict between reason and traditionReferences; 4 Welfare beyond the state: 'ihsani' societal-based welfare; Introduction; Functioning individuals and ihsani social capital; A benevolent society as an alternative to the state as provider; Welfare through waqfs; The nationalisation of society: can waqfs be revived?; An effective minimal state; Conclusion; References; 5 The individual, freedom of choice and tolerance in the Quran; The individual in the Quran; Freedom of individual action and choice in the Quran; No compulsion; Subtexts
• The Prophet's SunnaIslam and the state; Tolerance and the present-day state of Muslim societies; Apostasy; Conclusion; References; 6 Economic freedom: the path to women's emancipation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region; Women in development versus gender and development: implications for policy making in the Arab world; The economic participation of women in the MENA region; Market-friendly policies and their potential for advancing the position of women in the Arab world; Gender-sensitive and market-friendly policies: the way forward; Women's economic participation in Islam
• ConclusionReferences; 7 Jihad and political change: a perspective based on Quranic sources; Colonialism and post-colonialism; Peace, non-violence and the difficulty of meaningful change; Jihad for change; Conflicts in the Islamic world; The Quran and the way to peace; Conclusion; References; 8 Islam and politics today: the reasons for the rise of jihadism; The problem; The political experiences of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers; Characteristics of the early period state model; Politics as part of Sharia; Colonisation and the birth of modern Islamic movements
• From Pan-Islamism to jihadism

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ISBN

0-255-36730-9

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