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March on Political Liberalism & Islam

By Lawrence Solum

Andrew F. March (Yale University) has posted Reading Tariq Ramadan: Political Liberalism, Islam, and 'Overlapping Consensus' (Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 399-413, Winter 2007) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

In this paper I discuss the controversy over the career and thought of Tariq Ramadan. I offer an account of what Western liberals ought to hope for from the thought of such a figure and then show, pace Ramadan's critiques, that his views on European citizenship and social cooperation are largely "reasonable" from the standpoint of political liberalism. I also situate Ramadan's views in the context of Islamic law and contemporary Islamist thought on life in the West.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).