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By Abdelillah Belkeziz

The debates on Islam and modernity essentially comprise of their research notions of the country. Abdelillah Belkeziz right here charts the improvement of the idea that of 'the country' (al-dawlah) in Islamic discourse over the past centuries. the result's a travel de strength survey of the main influential Muslim thinkers of the trendy period, which encompasses 3 successive waves: the modernist traits of the early and later reformers like Sayyed Jamal Eddin Al-Afghani; the dogmatism of ideologues like Hasan Al-Bana; and the rhetoric of revivalists just like the Ayatollah Khomeini. via this research, Belkeziz argues that sleek Islamic political proposal succeeded in generating ideologies, yet eventually didn't produce a unified concept of nation. This paintings is a necessary encyclopedic source for all students and researchers of Political Islam and should turn into a typical paintings within the field.

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4. Belkeziz, Abdelilah, al-KhiπÆb al-I∆lÆ≈∞ fi al-Maghrib: al-Takw∞n wa al-Ma∆Ædir (1844–1918), Fikr ≤Arab∞ Mu≤Æ∆ir (Beirut: DÆr al-Muntakhab al-≤Arab∞, 1997). 5. , the absolute ‘unicity’ of Allah in ‘Islamic monotheism’) whereas the problem of Islamist Reformism is development or renaissance and the urge to seek their reasons. 6 To overlook tradition here means, according to ≤Al∞ Oml∞l, the reaction of social Islam (historical Islam) towards normative Islam: Islam of fundamentals. Available in: Oml∞l, ≤Al∞, Al-I∆lÆ≈∞yah al-≤Arab∞yah wa al-Dawlah al-Waπan∞yah (Casablanca: alMarkaz al-ThaqÆf∞ al-≤Arab∞; Beirut: DÆr al-Tanw∞r, 1985), pp.

469. 48. Al-T∑nis∞, Aqwam al-MasÆlik, p. 228. 49. Al-∏ahπÆw∞,Takhl∞∆, p. 95. 50. Al-T∑nis∞, Aqwam al-MasÆlik, p. 165. 51. A major impasse in the functioning of the Tanæ∞mÆt was intervention of some of its affiliates, for their own personal interests, into its foundational and procedural aspects and that impeded its function, they manipulated its plans uninhibitedly. Available in: Al-T∑nis∞, Aqwam al-MasÆlik, p. 151. The State of the ‘Tanæ∞mÆt’ or the State of Reason and al-Shar≤ 25 52. Al-T∑nis∞, Aqwam al-MasÆlik, p.

26. Al-T∑ns∞ classified it into two categories: personal freedom (al-≈ur∞yah alshakh∆∞yah) and political freedom (al-≈ur∞yah al-s∞yÆs∞yah). Available in: Al-T∑ns∞, Aqwam al-MasÆlik, p. 270. While al-∏ahπÆw∞ classified it into five categories: natural freedom, freedom of conduct, religious freedom, civil freedom, and political freedom. (≈ur∞yah πab∞≤∞yah, ≈ur∞yah sul∑k∞yah, ≈ur∞yah d∞n∞yah, ≈ur∞yah madan∞yah, and ≈ur∞yah s∞yÆs∞yah). Available in: Al-∏ahπÆw∞, Al-Murshid al-Am∞n li-al-BanÆt wa alBan∞n, in: RufÆ≤ah RÆfi al-∏ahπÆw∞, al-A≤mÆl al-KÆmilah li-RufÆ≤ah RÆfi al-∏ahπÆw∞, vol.

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