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| Author: | Manzoor, S. P. |
| Title: | The future of Muslim politics: critique of the 'fundamentalist' theory of the Islamic state. |
| Journal: | Futures
1991 : APR, VOL. 23:3, p. 289-301 |
| Index terms: | ISLAM FUTURE POLITICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Muslim ideologues, the traditional ulema, have reacted against the continued erosion of Islamic identity, which is the ultimate consequence of western dominance, by producing their own battle-cry of "back to the Islamic state". This "fundamentalist" theory of the Islamic state - total mobilization of Muslim societies under a universal state - is criticized as religiously an immanentist heresy, and politically a totalitarian nightmare. A way is proposed here out of the moral and intellectual crisis in Islamic political thought through the principle of Shura - meaning that Muslims must evolve their own form of representative government. |
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