International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

9781780766492

Cataloging Source

UiTM; rda

Local Call Number

BP173.6; .B3795 2009

Main Entry - Personal Name

Abdelilah Belkeziz; author

Title Statement

The State in Contemporary Islamic Thought; a historical survey of the major Muslim political thinkers of the modern era; Abdelilah Belkeziz

Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice

London; I. B. Tauris; ©2009

Physical Description

xxvi, 320 p.; 24 cm

Content Type

text; rdacontent

Media Type

unmediated; rdamedia

Carrier Type

volume; rdacarrier

Series Statement

Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ; v. 3

General Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-307) and index

Summary, Etc.

In any debate on 'Islam' and 'Modernity', the notion of the state looms large. Abdelillah Belkeziz here charts the development of the concept of 'the state' (al-Dawlah) in Islamic discourse over the last two centuries. The result is a tour de force survey of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern era, which encompasses three successive waves: the Modernist trends of the early and later reformers such as Sayyed Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad 'Abduh and Rashid Rida; the transition and break with the Reformist trend associated with Hasan al-Banna; and the political rhetoric of Revivalists such as Sayyid Qutb and Ayatollah Khomeini. Belkeziz also examines key, formative concepts in the history of intellectual development in Islamic thought concerning the state and power, including long-standing issues such as the debates surrounding the implementation of the Shari'ah or the meaning of al-Shura, as well as more recent evolutions in Islamic political thought, such as Khomeini's Wilayat al-Faqih. Through this analysis, Belkeziz argues that modern Islamic political thought has ultimately failed to produce a unified theory of state. Covering topics such as democracy, theocracy, constitutionalism and law, this work is an essential encyclopaedic resource for all scholars and researchers of Political Islam. Abdelillah Belkeziz is Professor of Philosophy at Hasan II University in Casablanca, Morocco. He is the author of several books, including The Formation of Political Islam: The Prophetic and Politics (2005) and Arabs and Modernity: A Study in the Discourse of Modernists (2007).

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term

Islam And State; Islam And Politics

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Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ; v. 3

Record ID

651556