... political consequences. But, is it the case that the principle is as exclusive of the secular as it appears? In this article, the author argues that Christian-Muslim coexistence is a distinctively Lebanese articulation of a secular sensibility, one that privileges certain ways of being Muslim or Christian...

... as toEast treasures, lands, confi the outside expansion seeking powers great and caesars, Emperors, Nassar R. Jamal United States, Europe, and Israel in the Middle East: The Role ofthe Secularism and Revivalism Religious...

...Sinem Gürbey In comparative and theoretical discussions, Turkey—where secularism is imposed from above as one of the irrevocable founding principles of the constitution—is criticized for being religiously hostile, aiming to repress religion in the public sphere in a coercive manner. This view...

... women and oblige them to sport turbans. Thus it is presumed that the bulk of the people in Turkey long for a state based on Islam. This article takes up the question of whether indeed a great majority of the people in Turkey are inclined toward a state based on Islam, for they oppose the secular...

... m: Introduction: Secularism and Islamism: Iran and Beyond lami s Is Saeed Rahnema and Haideh...

... that such humility is probably even rarer among nonreligious analytic ethicists than it is among religious ethicists. Duke University Press 2011 Secularism, Ethics, Philosophy: A Case for Epistemic Humility Susan...

...Ramin Jahanbegloo Secularism, for many of us, is not a terra incognita, and yet it is certainly an improperly defined and unexplained concept. For more than 150 years, intellectuals, politicians, and theologians have used secular and secularism in a rather ambiguous way. These terms therefore need...

... could a radically traditionalist religious establishment, which was normally marked by modern revolutionaries as reactionary, merge with the most radical revolutionary groups and views? What are the universal results of such a “chemical” composition for both the otherworldly religionism and secular...

...Peyman Vahabzadeh This essay draws on an original study of the history, theories, and organizational life of Iran's most influential leftist organization in the 1970s, the People's Fedayee Guerrillas, to examine the symptomatic misconception of secularism as well as the secularization of everyday...

...Niraja Gopal Jayal © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1997 References Barber , Benjamin . 1984 . Strong Democracy . Berkeley: University of California Press. Bhargava , Rajeev . 1994 . “Giving Secularism Its Due,” Economic and Political...

...Meir Hatina Abstract This article sheds light on a neglected episode in the scholarship on Egypt's intellectual life in the interwar period, as well as on the Arab renaissance (Nahda) and its intensive preoccupation with the triangle of religion, science, and secularism. The discussion focuses...

...Abel Majeed Hamdan Twenty years ago, religious trends were hardly visible in Palestine. Various factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were all secular. This is not the case today, as the religious discourse is overwhelming and the secular one is on the retreat. This so-called...

... this structural distinction, an imperative of the democratic state. I begin this article with an analysis of the nineteenth-century debates between Islamic scholars and European positivists and how they created a polarized perspective that frames Western secular tenets as inherently opposed to Islamic religious...

... that interrogation of headscarf discourse is only possible by turning the very notion of critique against itself in order to interrogate the conditions of secularism. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates...

...Rajeev Bhargava © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol XIV No. 1 (1994) How Not to Defend Secularism Rajeev B hargava The demolition of the Babri Masjid was a frontal spite separation, the two relate to each other. In attack on the principles...

...SherAli Tareen; Arvind-Pal S. Mandair; Nermeen Mouftah; John Modern This introductory essay provides an overview of the central themes and interventions marking Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age while also briefly describing the key nodes of analysis that frame the three...

...Reza Alijani The issues of religion and secularization are among the most pressing concerns in Iran today. Religion has historically played different roles and has been present at different levels within the society. Followers of different religions either have chosen total submission based...

...Nermeen Mouftah In Religious Difference in a Secular Age (2016), Saba Mahmood calls into question one of secularism’s greatest boasts—that it makes possible pluralistic societies that protect the rights of religious minorities. Rather than bolstering neutrality toward religion, she demonstrates how...

...Arvind-Pal S. Mandair This article responds to Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (2016). It highlights those aspects of the book that intersect with intellectual work that actively experiments with alternative ways of conceptualizing difference in order...

...Aparna Dharwadker A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan Fawzia Afzal-Khan Calcutta: Seagull, 2005 x + 143 pp., Rs 425 (cloth) Duke University Press 2006...