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Mitya
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Rida views renewal of Ijtihad as a central part of real Islamic government. The Rida precedents must not become sacrosanct, but it's not clear how an issue can be defined as either "religious" or "public policy". It might be said that consultative lawmaking collapses the distinction between law and policy in the spirit of modern reformism where an original period before the hardening of the law schools is imagined.
— Feb 23, 2023 11:58PM
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Mitya
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The challenges facing democratic Islam:
1) The moral pluralism of modernity, Muslims radically disagree with one another
2) The needs of politics often take precedent over high doctrine and utopian Islamism.
3) Islamist political thought occurs in the context of a state form.
4) Islamist political thought includes modern, post-Enlightenment political/moral assumptions (sovereign state, national will etc)
— Mar 09, 2023 03:28PM
1) The moral pluralism of modernity, Muslims radically disagree with one another
2) The needs of politics often take precedent over high doctrine and utopian Islamism.
3) Islamist political thought occurs in the context of a state form.
4) Islamist political thought includes modern, post-Enlightenment political/moral assumptions (sovereign state, national will etc)
Mitya
is on page 221 of 316
There has been an anti-democratic seen in anti-protesting. In addition, it covers the role of power and capacity to rule in restoring order over that of electoral legitimacy. Yet even they utilised popular sovereignty when Grand Mufti Ali Jum'a painted Sisi's coup as the "will of the people". In general, there is a transnational shift towards suppressing Islamist groups and drawing scholars close to the state.
— Mar 09, 2023 03:19PM
Mitya
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Important to note in discussions of Islamist popular sovereignty is the basic principle of right and justice pre-existing the formation of any particular legal order, and because the people as vicegerent already have formed moral identities prior to unification under a state sovereign the excercise of political power can be imagined as legitimate outside of formally authorized political structures.
— Mar 04, 2023 06:47PM
Mitya
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Islam's political morality is a consequence of individual conscience, usurpation by the corupt in a botched handoff of political power rather than political continuity (Mu'awiya's rule) is to blame. Traditional Sunnism sees a political order as prioviding for the material conditions for religion, Qutb sees politics as achieving in the individual moral perfection as corrupt institutions lead to corrupt individuals.
— Mar 03, 2023 07:42AM
Mitya
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Islam to Qutb is practical because it takes into account man's psychology, which is innately tuned into the religions perfect balance. This transformation of the Shari'a-based political vision into a system for the modern era shares a "core anxiety" with Rawlsian and other forms of justificatory liberalism. Man has social needs/avarice and Shari'a concedes to human psychology, only limiting how far it can go.
— Mar 02, 2023 06:35PM
Mitya
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Qutb's writings can be noted for their claims to the harmony of Islam with human nature which are both specific and placed at the level of the collective. This emancipatory aspect details how collective responsibility to the divine law can also carry collective freedom. Islamists stress Islam is a religion of application because it is an essentially practical religion that morally forms baser selves.
— Mar 01, 2023 05:53PM
Mitya
is on page 130 of 316
Qutb's writings can be noted for their claims to the harmony of Islam with human nature which are both specific and placed at the level of the collective. This emancipatory aspect details how collective responsibility to the divine law can also carry collective freedom. Islamists stress Islam is a religion of application because it is an essentially practical religion that morally forms baser selves.
— Mar 01, 2023 05:52PM
Mitya
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Mawdudi believes that each believer has the authority to challenge the interpretation of the law to a supreme court, which creates the individual right among believers to represent divine law. That all the umma is a vicegerent is a theo-democracy because Muslims have been given limited popular sovereignty by God. The Caliphate is shared by all, and this means no one man can claim dictatorship over others.
— Feb 28, 2023 03:00AM
