So this book claimed to provide the most comprehensive and structural theory of Muslim Secular-democracy |🧵
The book engages the most reputed modernist and progressive muslim-secularists like Abdullahi Naimi, Mohammed Talbi and Khaled Abou Fadl.
So, i really wanted to give...
The book engages the most reputed modernist and progressive muslim-secularists like Abdullahi Naimi, Mohammed Talbi and Khaled Abou Fadl.
So, i really wanted to give...
it a fair read and engage with it honestly since spanning over 240 pages, its the most ambitious effort i have come across to develop a Muslim-Secularist political theory.
But, boy oh boy i have been disappointed. Its not like i was expecting something solid anyways from
But, boy oh boy i have been disappointed. Its not like i was expecting something solid anyways from
this very concept in the first place but a part of me really was anticipating some miraculous way out of this oxymoronic relationship between Islam and Secularism - at least at some high technical level.
Just to point out one fact (to give you an idea) - the book claims
Just to point out one fact (to give you an idea) - the book claims
to be a "muslim" theory of secular democracy, yet, over a span of 240
pgs doesn't reference a single (not even one) quranic ayah, hadith of the prophet or practice of the companions for its advocacy. It quotes/references the likes of Charles Taylor & An-Naimi atleast a 100 times.
pgs doesn't reference a single (not even one) quranic ayah, hadith of the prophet or practice of the companions for its advocacy. It quotes/references the likes of Charles Taylor & An-Naimi atleast a 100 times.
The only thing "muslim" about this theory was the fact that it was produced by someone who claims to be muslim - other than that, its just an "equality for all, freedom for all" type human rights theory of politics - with absolutely no pivotal placement of Islam in it.
If you replace all the words - "muslim" & "islam" in the manuscript with the words "Christian" & "Christianity" without changing anything else - the theory will still make as much sense, because there's nothing in it that is particularly dependent on being a "muslim".
I actually feel sad and sorry for the muslim-secularists who really see a hope in this concept, because as far as this effort is concerned (which is the most ambitiously technical yet), it makes absolutely no sense in the Islamic Metaphysical Framework.
Even tho the book claims that the political secular theory of democracy provided doesn't take any philosophical framework for its definition of minimal constitutional morality - but it unwittingly goes on to build its case on the liberal humanist framework of ethics.
A classic case of viewing the western liberal frameworks as the "meta-meta institution" (Caner K. Dagli, 2024) that is by default accepted as a completely neutral and universal standard of everything, transcendent of any biases and devoid of any metaphysical assumptions.
Not to miss, on paper it is an otherwise great theory of "pure secularism" tho, because it fully ignores the human nature and envisions an idealistically simple structures of mutual respect, freedom and harmony between political institutions.
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