Islam and liberty : the historical misunderstanding /
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| Author / Creator: | Charfi, Mohamed. |
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| Uniform title: | Islam et liberté. English |
| Imprint: | New York ; London : Zed Books, 2005. |
| Description: | 186 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6005621 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Hesitant modernity
- Modernity not accepted
- Making peace with modernity
- 1. Islamic Fundamentalism
- Violence and obscurantism
- Conservatives and reformers
- Militant conservatism
- The programme of the fundamentalists
- Muslims and Islamists
- 2. Islam and Law
- Discrimination against women
- The sharia against freedom of conscience
- Non-Muslims
- Apostasy a crime?
- The political uses of apostasy
- Corporal punishment
- The hodud
- Comments
- The sharia and human rights
- The reasons for attachment to the sharia
- How Islam came to be identified with a legal system
- The sunna
- The Koran
- The role of the ulema
- A human creation
- The crushing of the Mutazilites
- The end of ijtihad
- Talfik
- Hermeneutics
- The eternal and the specific
- Freeing the law
- 3. Islam and the State
- The Koran and the caliphate
- Sunna and caliphate
- The Koranic definition of the Prophet's mission
- Achievement of the Prophet's mission
- The caliphate
- Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- The handling of religious affairs
- 4. Education and Modernity
- The evolution of education in Tunisia
- The first reforms
- Independence
- The deviation
- Islamism and education in the Arab countries
- Towards a reform of education
- Identity
- Religion
- Self-knowledge and knowledge of others
- The scientific approach
- Quantity and quality
- Conclusion
- Notes