Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology - A Critical Re-Evaluation

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Setting the Table: Liberalism and its Enlightenment Origins 3. ‘Liberalisms’: Exploring the Deep Familial Relationship Between Comprehensive Liberalism and Political Liberalism 4. ‘Islams’: Rethinking the Question ‘What is Islam?’ Rearticulated as a Coherent Discursive Tradition Despite the Multiplicity of Local Traditions 5. Comparing the Liberal and Islamic Approaches to Moral Epistemology and Human Rights 6. Comparing the Liberal and Islamic Approaches to the Role of Religion in the Public Sphere 7. Comparing the Liberal and Islamic Approaches to Law 8. A Communitarian Alternative for Modern Islamic Societies? 9. Conclusion

About the author

Joseph J. Kaminski is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of International Relations at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Current research interests include: Religion and Politics, Comparative Political Theory, and New Approaches to Islamic Public Reason. He is the author of The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization (2017).

Summary

This book offers comparative ontologies of both Islam and liberalism as discourses more broadly construed.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph J. Kaminski, Joseph J. (International University of S Kaminski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367539856
• ISBN: 978-0-367-53985-6
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, LAW / Islamic