scholarly journals Islamic Political Thought after the Arab Spring

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-150
Author(s):  
Jay Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Naval Academy ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
United States Naval Academy ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Islamic Political Thought ◽  
The Arab Spring

On December 7, 2012, Ermin Sinanovic (assistant professor, Department ofPolitical Science, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD) presentedhis “Islamic Political Thought after the Arab Spring,” at the headquarters ofthe International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT; Herndon, VA). After openingwith several questions – How have the events in the Middle East and Arabworld influenced and continued to shape Islamic political thought? Why didthe Arab Spring happen now? What were the contributing factors? How is Islamicpolitical thought being reshaped by these events? – he began to makehis case that the underlying political theory of the Arab Spring representssomething new in Islamic political thought.One of his contentions is that traditional Islamic political thought is nowseen as out of date, as caught up in the past. This situation began to changefirst among the Shi‘ah and was instrumental in Iran’s revolution. The ArabSpring has accelerated this reawakening among the Sunnis, which began inthe 1970s, thereby showing that Islamic political thought was no longerstatic. But because this uprising is still so recent and ongoing, scholars arestill trying to make sense of it and thus all conclusions up to this point remaintentative ...

scholarly journals Islamic Reform Movements after the Arab Spring

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-172
Author(s):  
Jay Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Islamic Reform ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Special Lecture ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Algerian Civil War ◽  
Annual Summer

On June 24-July 3, 2013, the International Institute of Islamic Thought held its annual Summer Institute for Scholars. Given the number of presentations, only a few of them will be mentioned here. In his welcoming remarks, Abdul Aziz Sachedina (George Mason University) spoke eloquently about how change has to come from within, how politics still dominates values, and how the Qur’an and Sunnah are being read not for inspiration, but for putting down opposition and dissenters. The Arab Spring represents a challenge to undertake such an internal reform. Unfortunately, he said, cyberspace contains no serious conversation in this regard, just hostility and animosity, which only damages Muslims. He called for leaders to “moralize” the entire issue in order to achieve co-existence, mainly between Shi‘is and Sunnis, and wondered if the reformers could deal with this and other issues. John Voll (Georgetown University), who delivered the keynote address, “Pop-politics and Elections: Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring,” raised the question as to whether the Arab Spring makes any difference, given that reform movements have been going on in the Muslim world since 1880. Are we, he asked, “looking at something moving forward/different, or just rehashing the same old arguments?” He opined that a new vocabulary is needed and that people have to move beyond “interfaith,” “tolerance,” and interreligious dialogue and speak to each other about “shared interests.” He then discussed earlier Muslim reform movements and how their goals have changed over the years. Yahya Michot (Hartford University) presented a special lecture entitled “Taymiyyan Thoughts for a Temperate Arab Summer.” He pointed out how different groups (e.g., those groups responsible for assassinating Sadat, the Algerian civil war, and 9/11) took Ibn Taymiyyah’s anti-Mongol fatwas out of context to justify their actions. Thus they ignored the underlying issues: The supposedly “Muslim” Mongols were still massacring Muslims; ...

scholarly journals Prospects and Dimensions of Conflict Resolution Programs in the Islamic Context

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
Jay Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
International Institute ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Muslim Scholars

Amr Abdalla (professor and vice rector, University for Peace, San Jose, CostaRica) visited the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) on February1, 2013, to discuss the challenges of conflict resolution and peace that hascaught the attention of so many Muslim and non-Muslim scholars and policymakersfor several decades. As the Muslim world remains plagued with violentconfrontations between states and non-state actors, regional and nationalsectarian conflicts, and domestic conflicts with gender and family elements,such a discussion is very timely.The outbreak of the Arab Spring, which has resulted in several Islamistgroups taking power, has raised various questions: Why is it important to talk about conflict resolution and peace building in an Islamic context? How canthe theoretical be combined with the practical? How does Islam fit into thedemonstrations that occurred during the Arab Spring as well as into modernity?This is, according to Abdalla, the first opportunity that contemporaryMuslims have had to answer these questions for themselves ...

Part 1 Constitutionalism and Islam: Conceptual Issues, 1.2 The Centrality of Sharī‘ah to Government and Constitutionalism in Islam

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
El Fadl Khaled Abou
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Dormant State ◽  
Majoritarian Democracy ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Islamic Political Thought ◽  
Muslim Scholars

This chapter examines potentialities, i.e. the doctrinal aspects in Islamic political thought that could legitimate, promote, or subvert the emergence of a constitutional practice in Muslim cultures. These doctrinal potentialities exist in a dormant state until they are co-opted and directed by systematic thought supported by cumulative social practices. The discussions focus on doctrinal potentialities or concepts constructed by the interpretive activity of Muslim scholars (primarily jurists). It covers the notion of constitutionalism and majoritarian democracy; the main concepts of Islamic political thought; justice as a core constitutional value; the instrumentalities of government in Islamic thought; the possibility of individual rights; and constitutionalism and Sharīʻah.

The theoretical implanting of the concept of political ignorance in Islamic political thought

2019 ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Mohammed Hazem Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Theoretical Determination ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Islamic Political Thought ◽  
Holy Quran

The political ignorance is an integral  concept in political Islamic thought, the research shows that concept is theoretical determination among legitimate assumptions and illustrate its conceptual roots and determinate its indication features, represented  by Holy Quran and Honorable Prophet Traditions (Sunnah) described by the principle sources for the political and Islamic sources, from these two divine  sources , the political thinkers has derived  the concept of political and  an endoscopy  and analysis of , the study require to divide the thesis into two demand , the first is : the concept of political ignorance in Holy Quran and Honorable Prophet Traditions (Sunnah), the second demand : the conceptualization of  the concept of political ignorance

Political thought, modern Islamic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew F. March
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Islamic Political Thought ◽  
The Status ◽  
Islamic Revivalism ◽  
Islamic Modernism

For Islamic thought, the problem of modernity is inseparable from the problem of the relative power imbalance between the West and the lands of Islam. The variety of intellectual trends within Islamic thought all have as their primary stimulus (in some form or another) the imperative of providing authentic ‘Islamic answers’ to the problems of Western colonialism and imperialism and the corresponding Muslim political and economic weakness. All of the main debates which form the contours of modern Islamic political thought – the relative status of reason versus revelation, the immutability versus the reformability of Islamic law, the moral status of national or regional versus pan-Islamic political membership, the status of non-Muslim states and relationships with non-Muslims, the legitimacy of democratic forms of rule, the laws of warfare and political violence, the place of technology – have taken place in reaction to Western ascendancy and hegemony. For the purposes of studying Islamic political thought it is therefore appropriate to date the onset of modernity as late as the mid-nineteenth century. We may thus mark the beginning of a distinctly modern Islamic political intellectual tradition with the school of Islamic Modernism. This movement represents the first attempt to deal with the challenge of Western ascendancy in a non-traditionalist or purely conservative manner. While Islamic Modernism never succeeded in creating a mass political consciousness or defending a coherent intellectual and political position between outright secularism and Islamic revivalism, it marks the break between late medieval traditionalism and twentieth-century Islamic fundamentalism. The latter movement – whether known as Revivalism, fundamentalism or Salafism – represents a rejection of Modernism’s attempts to reform Islamic law and willingness to borrow from the West in mundane matters, but possesses a mass character and intellectual vitality not characteristic of traditional scholastic Islam in the nineteenth century. Islamic Modernism emerged as an elite movement in the later part of the nineteenth century as an attempt to bridge Islamic theological and epistemological commitments with Western modernity. It was an attempt both to rehabilitate Islam as a source of knowledge, identity and inspiration for Muslims, and to allow Muslims to incorporate those cultural and intellectual aspects of European modernity seen as necessary for competing with Western political and economic power. The core tenet of Islamic Modernism was that Islam itself was not the cause of nineteenth-century Muslim stagnation, but that certain theological and canonical reforms were necessary to awaken Muslims from their submissiveness and quietism. Islamic Revivalism is the broad ideological trend which insists on the centrality of religion in all aspects of Muslim family, social, economic and political life. It emerged as an explicit rejection of both inter-war secularist trends and Islamic Modernism. For revivalists, the latter represent an apologetic, pro-Western betrayal of core Islamic commitments, although Revivalism in some manifestations shares Modernism’s rejection of what it perceives as the conservative, quietist, passive nature of traditional orthodox scholarship and the insistence on direct engagement with the Qur’an. While rejecting many of Modernism’s reforms and openness to change, and reverting to many of the doctrinal positions of the medieval legal schools, Revivalism has as its central raison d’être the provision of authentic ‘Islamic solutions’ to modern social problems and the weakness of Muslim lands; this aspiration to popular support and tangible results leaves Revivalism at times at odds with the self-restraint, caution and concern with methodology which characterized the medieval religious scholars.

The Sorrowful Muslim's Guide

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein Ahmad Amin
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Muslim Intellectuals ◽  
The Many ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Arab Spring

Originally published in Arabic in 1983, this book remains a timely and important read today. Both the resurgence of Islamist politics and the political, social and intellectual upheaval which accompanied the Arab Spring challenge us to re-examine the interaction between the pre-modern Islamic tradition and modern supporters of continuity, reform and change in Muslim communities. This book does exactly that, raising questions regarding issues about which other Muslim intellectuals and thinkers have been silent. These include – among others – current religious practice vs the Islamic ideal; the many additions to the original revelation; the veracity of the Prophet’s biography and his sayings; the development of Sufism; and historical and ideological influences on Islamic thought.

scholarly journals Peta Pemikiran Politik Islam: Liberal, Moderat, dan Fundamental

POLITEA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Ozi Setiadi
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Islamic Political Thought ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Liberal Thought

Typology of Islamic Political Thinking: Liberal, Moderate, and Fundamentals. This study will analyze the three models of political thinking, Liberal, moderate, and fundamental. This is done with an analytical descriptive approach. The results of this paper illustrate that the presence of liberal, moderate and fundamental Islamic political thought is unavoidable. This is a consequence of the development of a culture of thought originating from different places and locations. The thinking of liberal Islam wants the absence of limits in understanding normative texts of religion, contrary to the fundamentals that actually want the opposite and are very textual. While moderate Islamic thought seeks to take the midpoint of the differences that occur between liberal Islamic political thought and fundamentals. These three thinking models have their respective weaknesses. Liberal thought has a tendency to minimize the use of text, and the dominance of the use of ratios. Fundamental thinking has a tendency to dominate the use of text, and is often trapped in classical period romance. Whereas moderate thinking takes value from both, so it sometimes collides with liberal and fundamental thinking, and is considered not to have a solid consistency of thought.

scholarly journals [The Concept of The Appointment of Leaders From The Perspective of Fiqh Siyasah Perspective: Analysis of The Theories Of Islamic Political Thinking] Konsep Pelantikan Pemimpin Dari Sudut Perspektif Fiqh Siyasah: Analisis Terhadap Teori-Teori Pemikiran

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Mohd Ridzuan Mohamad ◽  
Basri Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The Third ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Islamic Political Thought ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Perspective Analysis

Since the death of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the question of Islamic Governance has become a hot debate among Islamic scholars, among others the appointment of leaders. Hence, the Islamic history has proven that there are various concepts of leadership appointments that make it possible to pinpoint the best one, especially for today’s state of affairs. The objective of this study was to explain the position of the theories of Islamic scholars on the appointment of leaders from the perspective of Fiqh Siyasah. This study was qualitative because it involved library researches on political books and Islamic history. The findings showed that there were seven forms of leadership appointments in the context of Fiqh Siyasah, based on three theories of Islamic thought. The first was Islamic thought in the 7th to 13th AD, second was Islamic thought in the 14th and 18th centuries of Islam and the third was Islamic thought of the 19th century until present day. In conclusion, these theories showed that the appointment of leaders was a matter of ijtihad. As compared to the today’s concept of the appointment of leaders, it is not contrary to Islamic values according to Fiqh Siyasah.Keywords: al-Hall wa al-‘Aqd, Fiqh Siyasah, Mushawarah, Islamic Political Thought and Leader Appointment     Sejak kewafatan Rasulullah s.a.w. persoalan ketatanegaraan Islam menjadi perdebatan hangat dalam kalangan para sarjana Islam antaranya perlantikan pemimpin. Justeru, sejarah Islam telah membuktikan bahawa terdapat pelbagai konsep perlantikan pemimpin sehingga tidak dinyatakan konsep terbaik untuk diamalkan pada masa kini. Objektif kajian ini menjelaskan kedudukan teori-teori para sarjana Islam berhubung perlantikan pemimpin dari perspektif fiqh siyāsah. Kajian ini bersifat kajian kualitatif kerana melibatkan penelitian perpustakaan terhadap buku-buku politik dan sejarah Islam. Dapatan kajian ini menjelaskan terdapat tujuh bentuk pelantikan pemimpin dalam konteks fiqh siyasah berasaskan tiga teori pemikiran Islam iaitu pertama pemikiran Islam pada abad 7 hingga 13 Masihi, kedua pemikiran Islam pada abad 14 hingga 18 Masihi dan ketiga pemikiran Islam pada abad 19 hingga sekarang. Kesimpulannya, teori-teori ini menunjukkan perlantikan pemimpin merupakan perkara ijtihad. Jika dibandingkan konsep pelantikan pemimpin pada masa sekarang ini, ianya tidak berlawanan dengan nilai-nilai keislaman menurut fiqh siyasah.   Kata kunci: al-Hall wa al-‘Aqd , Fiqh Siyasah, Mushawarah, Pemikiran Politik Islam dan Perlantikan Pemimpin

scholarly journals PEMIKIRAN POLITIK DAN PEMERINTAHAN IKHWANUL MUSLIMIN PASCA MUSIM SEMI ARAB

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Syawaluddin Syawaluddin
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
First Time

This paper seeks to uncover the political thought and governmental concept of the Egyptian president, Muhammad Mursy, who was democratically elected for the first time, after the “Arab Spring”. Mursi is a members of the Muslim Brotherhood (IM) who was regarded as a forbidden party or an illegal mass organi- zation in Egypt before. This research based on literature research that seeks to collect the data related to the political thought and governmental concept of Muhammad Mursi as a members of the Muslim Brotherhood party, whether from the Internet or books that discuss about the phenomenon. This research found a num- ber of discoveries conducted by Mursi such as; the opening of a border gate in Gaza for Palestinians to enter Egypt, The vice-president’s from women and non-Muslims, restrict military gains in politics, and the others controversial decision.

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