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Liberal Theory and Islam: Religion, Law and the State in Muslim Contexts

Liberal Theory and Islam: Religion, Law and the State in Muslim Contexts

Author: Arif Jamal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138205482
Published In: March 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary Muslim societies is how to relate the legal and political heritage that developed in pre-modern Islamic polities to the political order of the modern states in which Muslims now live.

This work seeks to develop a framework for addressing this issue. The central argument is that liberal theory, and in particular a variety of it called justice as discourse which is developed in the book, though it may have emerged in a different social and cultural milieu, can be normatively useful in Muslim contexts for relating, religion, law, state and society. Just as Muslim contexts have developed historically, and continue to develop today, the same is the case with the requisites of liberal theory and this may allow for liberal choices to be made in a manner that is not a renunciation of Muslim heritage.

Introduction

i. The challenge

ii. The structure

iii. The approach

iv. The contribution and the argument

Chapter 1: Developing the concept of ‘justice as discourse’

1.1 The challenge of diversity: liberal theory’s normative commitment

1.2 Alternatives to Rawls’ theory

1.3 Constructing a theory – justice as discourse

1.4 Justice as discourse versus some alternatives

1.5 Conclusion

Chapter 2: Justice as discourse in application