What Is Enlightenment?
by Mohammed D. CherkaouiHani Albasoos (Contribution by)Albena Azmanova (Contribution by)Brian Calfano (Contribution by)John Entelis (Contribution by)Azza Karam (Contribution by)Richard Rubenstein (Contribution by)Solon Simmons (Contribution by)Radwan Ziadeh (Contribution by)
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Political sociology has struggled with predicting the next turn of transformation in the MENA countries after the 2011 Uprisings. Arab activists did not articulate explicitly any modalities of their desired system, although their slogans ushered to a fully-democratic society. These unguided Uprisings showcase an open-ended freedom-to question after Arabs underwent their freedom-from struggle from authoritarianism. The new conflicts in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Libya have fragmented shar'iya (legitimacy) into distinct conceptualizations: "revolutionary legitimacy," "electoral legitimacy," "legitimacy of the street," and "consensual legitimacy." This volume examines whether the Uprisings would introduce a replica of the European Enlightenment or rather stimulate an Arab/Islamic awakening with its own cultural specificity and political philosophy. By placing Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square, this book adopts a comparative analysis of two enlightenment projects: one Arab, still under construction, with possible progression toward modernity or regression toward neo-authoritarianism, and one European, shaped by the past two centuries. Mohammed D. Cherkaoui and the contributing authors use a hybrid theoretical framework drawing on three tanwiri (enlightenment) philosophers from different eras: Ibn Rushd, known in the west as Averroes (the twelfth century), Immanuel Kant (the eighteenth century), and Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri (the twentieth century). The authors propose a few projections about the outcome of the competition between an Islamocracy vision and what Cherkaoui terms as a Demoslamic vision, since it implies the Islamist movements' flexibility to reconcile their religious absolutism with the prerequisites of liberal democracy. This book also traces the patterns of change which point to a possible Arab Axial Age. It ends with the trials of modernity and tradition in Tunisia and an imaginary speech Kant would deliver at the Tunisian Parliament after those vibrant debates of the new constitution in 2014.
| ISBN-13 | 9780739193679 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0739193678 |
| Weight | 1.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.25 x 1.38 x 9.36 In |
| List Price | $142.00 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 404 pages |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Published On | 2016-04-11 |
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