Major themes in the Arabic political literature of Islamic revivalism, 1970-1985: The Islamic system of government (al-nizam al-islami), shura democracy and the implementation of the Sharica as opposed to secularism (cilmaniyya) |
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| Authors: | Bassam Tibi |
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| Institution: | Professor, Director of the Abteilung fur Internationale Beziehungen am Seminar fur Politikwissenschaft der Georg-August, Universitat zu Gottingen, Gottingen, GERMANY |
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| Abstract: | The analysis of the political literature of Islamic revivalism belongs to the pertinent issues of Muslim-Christian dialogue. Part one of the article, published in ICMR vol. 3, no. 2, came to the conclusion that political Islam is a burden for modern Islam and an obstacle to the accommodation of the needs of the Muslim people of the modern age. Part two discusses two central elements of an Islamic political system: the Shari'a as a legal system, and the shura as the authentic Islamic pattern of parliamentarism. |
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