http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:00:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/27/an-islamic-case-for-a-secular-state/ http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/27/an-islamic-case-for-a-secular-state/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 21:16:38 +0000 Charles Kurzman http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=247 If the state is going to enforce any principle from Islamic sources, according to Abdullahi An-Na‘im, then it should implement the principle that the state should not enforce Islamic principles. This is the crux of An-Na‘im's new book, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari‘a. An-Na‘im, a renowned Islamic scholar and human rights activist, is a leading member of the generation of Muslim intellectuals that came to prominence in the 1980s as critics of both Islamist revolutionaries and post-colonial dictators. According to An-Na‘im, the secular state is not just a good thing on public-policy grounds; it is also justified on Islamic grounds. [...]]]> http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/05/27/an-islamic-case-for-a-secular-state/feed/ 0