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Islamic Political Thought

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Islamic Political Thought refers to the body of ideas and theories regarding governance, authority, and political organization derived from Islamic principles, texts, and historical practices. It encompasses the interpretations of Islamic law (Sharia), the role of the state, and the relationship between religion and politics within various Islamic contexts.
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Islamic Political Thought refers to the body of ideas and theories regarding governance, authority, and political organization derived from Islamic principles, texts, and historical practices. It encompasses the interpretations of Islamic law (Sharia), the role of the state, and the relationship between religion and politics within various Islamic contexts.

Key research themes

1. How have historical juristic approaches shaped the balance between political authority and Islamic law in Islamic political thought?

This research theme investigates the intricate jurisprudential dynamics between Islamic law (Fiqh) scholars and political rulers, focusing on how early Islamic jurists, particularly the Ḥanafī school, navigated political authority while safeguarding legal principles. This theme is critical for understanding the formation of Islamic governance models and the continuing tension between religious legitimacy and state authority.

Key finding: The paper finds that while Abu Hanifa personally distanced himself from political authorities due to principled opposition and adherence to justice, his disciples increasingly engaged with political powers, sometimes granting... Read more
Key finding: Zaman’s work contextualizes the tension between religious authority and political power in modern Islamic thought, showing how internal criticism and pluralism within Islamic jurisprudence challenge absolute political... Read more
Key finding: This article demonstrates how post-1967 Islamist intellectuals engaged and incorporated secular disciplinary tools while negotiating the boundaries between religious law and state politics. It highlights the intellectual... Read more
Key finding: Analyzing Wael Hallaq’s thesis, this paper reveals the fundamental incompatibility between the centralized, bureaucratic modern state and Sharia as a normative social and ethical system. It critiques attempts to reconcile... Read more

2. How is political identity redefined in contemporary Islamic thought amid religious and national pluralism?

This theme examines contemporary Islamic intellectual efforts to reformulate political identity by addressing the challenges posed by religious, ethnic, and national pluralism within Muslim societies. It focuses on attempts to reconcile Islamic authenticity with modern notions of statehood, citizenship, and political participation, offering pragmatic frameworks for coexistence and justice in diverse contexts.

Key finding: The study highlights that contemporary Islamic thinkers promote a political identity framework that accommodates religious and national diversity, advocating for social contracts emphasizing equality and justice. It... Read more
Key finding: This article documents how political Islam has diversified through state power experiences and violence-related controversies over four decades, elucidating how Islamist movements have adapted to governance challenges and... Read more
Key finding: By historicizing the Islamic revival and the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideological shifts, this report uncovers the pluralistic realities of Islamist movements engaging with nationalist and democratic aspirations. It shows a... Read more

3. What are the philosophical and practical implications of secularism and modernity on Islamic political thought?

Research under this theme focuses on the interplay between Islamic epistemology, secular political concepts, and modern challenges to religious authority. It analyzes how Islamic political thought critiques, incorporates, or resists secularism and engages with philosophical debates about freedom, authority, and moral governance, both historically and in contemporary contexts.

Key finding: Al-Attas critically reveals how secularization—rooted in Western Christian history—has influenced and confounded Muslim thinkers, creating a dilemma in embracing modernity without sacrificing Islamic epistemological... Read more
Key finding: This paper rebuts claims that political freedom is incompatible with Islam by distinguishing between liberal and republican conceptions of freedom. It identifies evidence of a republican understanding of political freedom... Read more
Key finding: The article also contributes here by illustrating how Islamist movements have integrated secular hermeneutic tools, reflecting a complex negotiation of secularism and revivalism in shaping political ideology and practice.
Key finding: This paper provides a scholarly philosophical rebuttal to reductionist views of religion as mere neurobiological illusion, emphasizing the aesthetic, moral, and transformative dimensions of religious experience. It challenges... Read more

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This article explores the underlying ideas conveyed by the literary representations associated with Luqmān b. ʿĀd and Luqmān the Sage in classical Arabic sources. It avoids conflating them or collapsing all portrayals of Luqmān b. ʿĀd... more
This article revisits the attribution of the Kitāb al-Maqālāt, a previously unknown heresiological text, to the renowned Muʿtazilī theologian Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī. Discovered in a Yemeni manuscript compilation and first studied by Hassan... more
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This book is dedicated to: * The glory of Allah Who Has made this research work a success and a reality, * Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) who has been a source of mercy and guidance to the erring human race, * My aged mother Hajiya Zainab... more
At a Two-day Seminar on "Historical and Intellectual Ties between Timbuktu and Nigeria, held at Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti Centre in Timbuktu, Mali.
Since the advent of Prophet Muhammad(SAW) till the nineteenth century CE, there has been a consensus among all the Muslims of all schools of thoughts that the Prophet(SAW) was the last of the Prophets(AS) and no new prophet will appear... more
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This article highlights the crucial need for individual moral reform within the Muslim community, arguing that genuine faith lies in ethical conduct, not just ritual observance. Drawing on the Holy Quran and the teachings of Prophet... more
In Eurasia the great historic fault lines between civilizations are once more aflame. This is particularly true along the boundaries of the crescent-shaped Islamic bloc of nations from the bulge of Africa to central Asia. Violence also... more
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The last years of the 1970s and early 1980s witnessed an unprecedented growth of radical Islamic movements throughout the greater Middle East and North Africa from Pakistan to the Sudan. The climax of this process, and its most... more
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The renewed interest in anticolonial thought in the last decade has tended to overlook or underplay critiques of nationalism that formed an important strand within it. Indeed, the conflation of anticolonialism with nationalism remains... more
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ow might the ideas and practices of Global South migrants and activists inform normative frameworks and conceptual repertoires that political theorists and activists bring to bear on questions regarding justice and migration? Taking... more
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The metaphorical representation of the human body as an ideal community stands among the oldest and most complex figures in political philosophy. By analogizing the human body with both micro-and macro-level human collectives, this... more
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and... more
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The establishment of Islamic political parties in the reform era in Indonesia after the fall of Suharto (1998), considered as resurgence of political stream. There are several factors that led to the revival of Islamic parties after the... more
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