All Politics Are God's Politics

Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy

Ahmed Khanani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1862-0 (ISBN)

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Are Muslims in the Arab Middle East and North Africa fundamentally undemocratic? Pundits in the US often say yes, but Ahmed Khanani argues that this simplistic answer is incorrect. Instead, he shows, socially conservative, politically active Muslims value democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya as a frame that reflects and extends their religious values.

Contemporary mass media descriptions of Muslims often suggest that Islam and Muslims are fundamentally undemocratic. Policy-makers in the West have weaponized these descriptions in attempts to legitimize anti-Muslim right-wing policy developments across the West and in the United States in particular, from surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11 to the anti-Islamic travel ban of 2017. But are Muslims undemocratic? Ahmed Khanani argues that this is not the case. In All Politics are God's Politics, Khanani shows that in fact, the opposite holds true: for socially conservative, politically active Muslims (Islamists), democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya reflects and extends their religious values. By drawing on conversations with over 100 Islamists in Morocco, this book enables readers to understand and appreciate the significance of dimuqrāṭiyya as a concept alongside new prospects for Islam and democracy in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Khanani's in-depth analysis of the Moroccan case brings these Islamists and their attending political views to the forefront.

AHMED KHANANI is Plowshares Assistant Professor of Politics and co-director of the Center for Social Justice at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.

Contents

Note on Names
Introduction
1. Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Study of Democracy
2. islāmiyūn, Islam, Democracy
3. Institutions as Bridges
4. On Democracy and Substantive Goods
5. Democracy at Work
Epilogue

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2021
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-9788-1862-9 / 1978818629
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-1862-0 / 9781978818620
Zustand	Neuware