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Islamic Politics and Secular Politics: Can They Co-Exist?

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Mohammad Fadel, Islamic Politics and Secular Politics: Can They Co-Exist? (August 18, 2009). Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1457176 "I argue that using the resources of Islamic theological and legal tradition in support of the idea of a secular state is more likely to win traditionalist Muslim support for a secular state than Islamic arguments that rely on controversial theological propositions that are not necessarily required for at least certain kinds of secular states, e.g. a politically liberal state of the sort An-Naim calls for."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).