Theorizing Justice in Contemporary Arabo-Islamic Philosophy A Transcultural Approach with Fatima Mernissi and Mohammed Arkoun Kaouther Karoui

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karoui, Kaouther <p>Kaouther Karoui, Universität Münster, Deutschland</p>, Author.

Series:

Edition Moderne Postmoderne.

Edition Moderne Postmoderne

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabo-Islamic Philosophy.

Theories of Justice.

Islamic Feminism.

Transcultural Philosophy.

Postcolonial Theory.

Culture.

Law.

Postcolonialism.

Intercultural Philosophy.

Social Philosophy.

French History of Philosophy.

Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Arabo-Islamic Philosophy.

Theories of Justice.

Islamic Feminism.

Transcultural Philosophy.

Postcolonial Theory.

Culture.

Law.

Postcolonialism.

Intercultural Philosophy.

Social Philosophy.

French History of Philosophy.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Karoui, Theorizing Justice A Transcultural Approach with Fatima Mernissi and Mohammed Arkoun

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What is »justice« from the perspective of contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy? Kaouther Karoui takes a transcultural approach, open to different philosophical traditions, and seeks to decenter Western notions of normativity. She focuses on two thinkers, namely the feminist Fatima Mernissi (d.2015) and Mohammed Arkoun (d.2010), a well-known critic of hegemony and orthodoxy. She situates their thinking within current debates among Arab thinkers and brings their ideas into dialog with Western political philosophy. This study thus challenges stereotypes about the Arab-Islamic world by discussing postcolonial theories of gender justice, political freedom, and religion.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1 The concept of justice in Arabo‐Islamic and Western philosophy

1.2 The significance of postcolonial theory for the Maghrebian context

2. Background and methods in the thought of Fatima Mernissi

Situating Mernissi's feminist thought: Her contributions both to secular and Islamic feminism

Islamic feminist hermeneutics as an entry to the field of postcolonial study

The idea of justice in Mernissi's work: A multi‐dimensional approach

Shifting themes and methods in the work of Mernissi

Method and structure of the research

2.1 The concept of secular humanism: The necessity of emancipating Islamic thought from religious and nationalist conceptions

Mernissi's concept of modern secular humanism

The Arab reformists and nationalists against a modern secular notion

The connotation of freedom in Arabic etymology: A sense of social discrimination

Is there a contradiction between Islamic tradition and the notion of freedom of belief?

The social contract of Islam: From freedom to a strong notion of equilibrium

Is there a contradiction between Islamic thought and the notion of individualism?

The submission to one God: from individualism to a strong notion of equality

2.2 The concept of justice in the modern era: The entanglement of descriptive and normative claims of justice theories

Political justice as equal participation in political decision making

Legal justice as equal protection under law

Social justice as access to social rights

Epistemic justice as equal access to knowledge formation and cultural products

2.3 The rereading of ninth‐century early Arabo‐Islamic thought: The theorization of notions of justice through Mernissi's transcultural and humanistic approaches

Legal justice as the right of interpretation (ijtihad).

Divine justice as the principle of self‐direction (freedom)

Political justice in the tradition of Islam: A tangle of rational and fundamentalist arguments

Political justice as the entanglement of political fundamentalism

Political justice based on reason and free will: A philosophical approach to morality in Islam

The reception of the rational heritage of the Mu'tazila in the ninth‐century of Islamic civilization

2.4 Transdisciplinary approaches to establish gender justice within the framework of Islamic feminism

Female deities in the pre‐Islamic era: Symbols of divinity and power

Women rebels in the time of the prophet Muhammed: Religious and political roles

Khadija Bint Khuwaylid

Aisha bint Abī Bakr

The question of the veil in Islamic heritage: Mernissi's deconstructionist socio‐historical and linguistic approaches

The situation of women in contemporary times: From freedom to social, economic, and political crisis

The reception of Mernissi's thought: secular and Islamic feminist approaches

Mernissi's secular feminist approach

Mernissi's Islamic feminist approach

2.5 The relevance of Mernissi's feminist thought for a transcultural approach to feminism

The deconstruction of myths as one of Mernissi's approaches to transcultural feminism

A transcultural dialogue: The transgression of the myth of boundaries (hudud)

2.6 Conclusion on the thought of Fatima Mernissi

3. Background and methods in the thought of Mohammed Arkoun

Insights into the person, life and work of Mohammed Arkoun

Structure and outline of the study

3.1 Mohammed Arkoun's rereading of the Islamic thought of Miskawayh (d. 1030): A multifaceted concept of justice

Miskawayh's theory of justice and the influence of Plato's and Aristotle's ethos.

Divine justice as an expression of the purification of the soul: Based on the metaphysical virtues of Plato

Justice in relation to human social interactions: Based on the practical ethics of Aristotle

Arkoun's interpretation of Miskawayh's theory of justice

Excursion 1: The Three Laws: The Islamic law of Shari'a, a principle law between a just ruler and money

Arkoun's concept of philosophical humanism as ethos for rational justice

Excursion 2: The Islamic ethical doctrine of 'voluntarism': The demand of human responsibility and self‐determination to establish rational justice in Islam

3.2 The method of applied Islamology: A transcultural and transdisciplinary key for the renewal of Islamic studies

The transdisciplinary, comparative, and rational approaches: Arkoun's rereading of the intellectual project of Al ‑Amiri (d. 992)

Transdisciplinary Approach: The possibility to reconcile philosophy and religion

Comparative approach: A harmony between different religions

Rational approach - The science of language (kalam): The opening of the gate of Ijtihad

Applied Islamology: A modern analytical criterion for the renewal of Islamic studies

Three categories of discourse: A tenuous and fixed study of Islamic Tradition

Applied Islamology: As critique of Orientalist method

The discourse of the science of man and society: Disclosing the "Unthought" of Islam as a subversive strategy

The relevance of applied Islamology for feminist thought: An exemplary case for its emancipatory functions

Exhaustive Tradition: The emergence of a subdivided Tradition in the Islamic archive using the methods of poststructuralist thought

Three analysis methods to deconstruct and rethink the Islamic archive: Episteme, Difference, and Deconstruction

Foucault's notion of the episteme and the disclosure of the logosphere.

Arkoun's adaptation of Difference and Deconstruction to liberate the Islamic archive and open up possibilities for new interpretations

Arkoun's deconstructivist rethinking of the theories of Revelation and Tradition

Exhaustive tradition: On the ethical necessity of speaking about the marginalized cultural traditions of Islam

3.3 Toward an emancipation from hegemonic constructions: The critique of orthodoxy, Arab nationalism, and Euro‐modernism

The hegemonic discourse as an influential factor in the formation of orthodoxy within the Qur'an

The hegemonic discourse as an influential factor in the formation of the nationalist discourse in most Muslim countries - The Maghreb

The nationalist conservative discourse: The foundation of closed Islamists identities

The nationalist positivist discourse: The establishment of a modern political dictatorship

Toward an understanding of Arkoun's ambivalent concept of secularity based on the recognition of the religious fact

Arkoun's concept of intellectual modernity: As a critique of the subordination of most Muslim societies to Euro‐modernity-centrism

3.4 The concept of emerging reason: A key for a democratic and cosmopolitan project

Emerging reason: The need to adopt a different worldview, or Weltanschauung

Arkoun's democratic and cosmopolitan project: The emergence of a new ethos

3.5 Conclusion on the thought of Mohammed Arkoun

4. Epilogue: Theorizing justice in contemporary Arabo‐Islamic philosophy

4.1 The common approach to theorizing justice by Fatima Mernissi and Mohammed Arkoun

4.2 On the relevance of a cosmopolitan theory of justice based on a transcultural approach

A plea for an epistemic diversity and intersectional analysis

Religious diversity and gender justice

Rethinking secularism and modernity from a transcultural angle.

The quest for a cosmopolitan ethos: Transgressing the boundaries between philosophy and religion

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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