Nader Hashemi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nader Hashemi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nader |
| FAMILY NAME | Hashemi |
| SIGNATURE | HASHEMI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Islam and Human Rights
The debate on Islam and human rights is roughly 50 years old. During this time a vast literature has been produced analyzing the relationship between the religion of Islam, Muslims societies and international human rights norms. What have we learned during this time that can further an understanding of this topic among students, scholars and members of the general public? What analytical framework is optimal? Is the crisis of human rights in Musl…
Religious Freedom in Islam
The fundamental problem with this book is its deep Orientalist bias. To appreciate this point, imagine a book discussing African Americans and the rule of law. The key question this hypothetical book would seek to answer is whether African American culture is inhospitable to respecting the rule of law. Two schools of thought, the author suggests, should be studied. Black skeptics argue that a disdain for rule of law and an appetite for gang activ…
Political Islam
The year 2020 roughly corresponds with the 40th anniversary of the rise of political Islam on the world stage. This topic has generated controversy about its impact on Muslims societies and international affairs more broadly, including how governments should respond to this socio-political phenomenon. This article has modest aims. It seeks to reflect on the broad theme of political Islam four decades after it first captured global headlines by cr…
Sectarianization
As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, “sectarianism” has become a catch-all explanation for the region’s troubles. The present turmoil is attributed to “ancient sectarian differences,” putatively primordial forces that make violent conflict intractable and any attempt to stem it futile. In this new conventional wisdom in Western media and policy circles, sectarianism has come to possess trans-historical causal power. Th…
Sectarianization
This article rejects the paradigm of “ancient sectarian hatreds” to explain the turmoil in the Middle East. Instead, the political context that illuminates the question of sectarianism is the persistence of authoritarianism and the crisis of legitimacy facing ruling regimes. The mobilization and manipulation of sectarian identities is a key strategy for regime survival, and it is within this framework that sectarianism can be better understood. D…
Toward a Political Theory of Sectarianism in the Middle East
Rethinking religion and political legitimacy across the Islam–West divide
The relationship between religion and politics is a bone of political contention and a source of deep confusion across the Islam–West divide. When most western liberals cast their gaze on Muslim societies today, what they see is deeply disconcerting. From their perspective there is simply too much religion in public life in the Arab-Islamic world, which raises serious questions for them about the prospects for democracy in this part of the world.…
Why Islam (Properly Understood) Is the Solution
This paper is a provocative play on the famous Muslim Brotherhood slogan al-Islām hūwa al-ḥāl (Islam is the solution). While critics of the Muslim Brothers rightly criticized them for the simplicity of their worldview in thinking that religion was a panacea for all of the problems confronting Muslim societies during the late twentieth century, an argument can be made that religion does profoundly matter in the context of the struggle for democrac…
The Arab Spring Two Years On
The Arab Spring of 2011 is widely viewed today as one of the great historical moments of political transformation. Comparisons have been made to the European revolutions of 1848 and the post–cold war democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, while some have spoken of a possible “fourth wave” of democratization. These analogies make sense given that longstanding dictators who seemed impervious to political change, in a region known for persistent …
The multiple histories of secularism
This article is intended to advance conceptual clarity on the topic of secularism in Muslim societies. It seeks to uncover unique historical developments that have influenced and shaped debate on this topic. In the first part, a distinction is made between the different social scientific categories of secularism, focusing on the philosophical, sociological and political dimensions of secularism. The second section provides a broad overview of the…
Religious Disputation and Democratic Constitutionalism
Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy
This book analyzes the relationship between religion, secularism, and liberal democracy—historically, theoretically, and in the context of the contemporary Muslim world. The central issue is: liberal democracy requires a form of secularism, yet simultaneously the main cultural and intellectual resources that Muslim democrats can draw upon are religious. A paradox, therefore, confronts the democratic theorist. Challenging the popular belief that r…
The Relevance of John Locke to Social Change in the Muslim World
Feature review
Entering the 21st Century
WHAT EFFECTS HAVE THE RECENT EVENTS in the Palestine territories and Israel had on the future stability of the Middle East? Despite murmurs of heightened regional antagonism and domestic social mobilization in response to the apparent setback to the peace process, we argue that the Middle East region is now underpinned by new strategic and political realities that will prevent a return to the patterns of conflict in the past. First, Middle East r…
Philip Larkin and His Contemporaries
Sectarianization
This article rejects the paradigm of “ancient sectarian hatreds” to explain the turmoil in the Middle East. Instead, the political context that illuminates the question of sectarianism is the persistence of authoritarianism and the crisis of legitimacy facing ruling regimes. The mobilization and manipulation of sectarian identities is a key strategy for regime survival, and it is within this framework that sectarianism can be better understood. D…
Toward a Political Theory of Sectarianism in the Middle East
Political Islam
The year 2020 roughly corresponds with the 40th anniversary of the rise of political Islam on the world stage. This topic has generated controversy about its impact on Muslims societies and international affairs more broadly, including how governments should respond to this socio-political phenomenon. This article has modest aims. It seeks to reflect on the broad theme of political Islam four decades after it first captured global headlines by cr…
The Arab Spring Two Years On
The Arab Spring of 2011 is widely viewed today as one of the great historical moments of political transformation. Comparisons have been made to the European revolutions of 1848 and the post–cold war democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, while some have spoken of a possible “fourth wave” of democratization. These analogies make sense given that longstanding dictators who seemed impervious to political change, in a region known for persistent …
Islam and Human Rights
The debate on Islam and human rights is roughly 50 years old. During this time a vast literature has been produced analyzing the relationship between the religion of Islam, Muslims societies and international human rights norms. What have we learned during this time that can further an understanding of this topic among students, scholars and members of the general public? What analytical framework is optimal? Is the crisis of human rights in Musl…
The multiple histories of secularism
This article is intended to advance conceptual clarity on the topic of secularism in Muslim societies. It seeks to uncover unique historical developments that have influenced and shaped debate on this topic. In the first part, a distinction is made between the different social scientific categories of secularism, focusing on the philosophical, sociological and political dimensions of secularism. The second section provides a broad overview of the…
Religious Disputation and Democratic Constitutionalism
Feature review
Philip Larkin and His Contemporaries
Entering the 21st Century
WHAT EFFECTS HAVE THE RECENT EVENTS in the Palestine territories and Israel had on the future stability of the Middle East? Despite murmurs of heightened regional antagonism and domestic social mobilization in response to the apparent setback to the peace process, we argue that the Middle East region is now underpinned by new strategic and political realities that will prevent a return to the patterns of conflict in the past. First, Middle East r…
Feature review
The Relevance of John Locke to Social Change in the Muslim World
Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy
This book analyzes the relationship between religion, secularism, and liberal democracy—historically, theoretically, and in the context of the contemporary Muslim world. The central issue is: liberal democracy requires a form of secularism, yet simultaneously the main cultural and intellectual resources that Muslim democrats can draw upon are religious. A paradox, therefore, confronts the democratic theorist. Challenging the popular belief that r…
The multiple histories of secularism
This article is intended to advance conceptual clarity on the topic of secularism in Muslim societies. It seeks to uncover unique historical developments that have influenced and shaped debate on this topic. In the first part, a distinction is made between the different social scientific categories of secularism, focusing on the philosophical, sociological and political dimensions of secularism. The second section provides a broad overview of the…
Religious Disputation and Democratic Constitutionalism
Why Islam (Properly Understood) Is the Solution
This paper is a provocative play on the famous Muslim Brotherhood slogan al-Islām hūwa al-ḥāl (Islam is the solution). While critics of the Muslim Brothers rightly criticized them for the simplicity of their worldview in thinking that religion was a panacea for all of the problems confronting Muslim societies during the late twentieth century, an argument can be made that religion does profoundly matter in the context of the struggle for democrac…
The Arab Spring Two Years On
The Arab Spring of 2011 is widely viewed today as one of the great historical moments of political transformation. Comparisons have been made to the European revolutions of 1848 and the post–cold war democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, while some have spoken of a possible “fourth wave” of democratization. These analogies make sense given that longstanding dictators who seemed impervious to political change, in a region known for persistent …
Rethinking religion and political legitimacy across the Islam–West divide
The relationship between religion and politics is a bone of political contention and a source of deep confusion across the Islam–West divide. When most western liberals cast their gaze on Muslim societies today, what they see is deeply disconcerting. From their perspective there is simply too much religion in public life in the Arab-Islamic world, which raises serious questions for them about the prospects for democracy in this part of the world.…
Toward a Political Theory of Sectarianism in the Middle East
Sectarianization
As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, “sectarianism” has become a catch-all explanation for the region’s troubles. The present turmoil is attributed to “ancient sectarian differences,” putatively primordial forces that make violent conflict intractable and any attempt to stem it futile. In this new conventional wisdom in Western media and policy circles, sectarianism has come to possess trans-historical causal power. Th…
Sectarianization
This article rejects the paradigm of “ancient sectarian hatreds” to explain the turmoil in the Middle East. Instead, the political context that illuminates the question of sectarianism is the persistence of authoritarianism and the crisis of legitimacy facing ruling regimes. The mobilization and manipulation of sectarian identities is a key strategy for regime survival, and it is within this framework that sectarianism can be better understood. D…
Political Islam
The year 2020 roughly corresponds with the 40th anniversary of the rise of political Islam on the world stage. This topic has generated controversy about its impact on Muslims societies and international affairs more broadly, including how governments should respond to this socio-political phenomenon. This article has modest aims. It seeks to reflect on the broad theme of political Islam four decades after it first captured global headlines by cr…
Islam and Human Rights
The debate on Islam and human rights is roughly 50 years old. During this time a vast literature has been produced analyzing the relationship between the religion of Islam, Muslims societies and international human rights norms. What have we learned during this time that can further an understanding of this topic among students, scholars and members of the general public? What analytical framework is optimal? Is the crisis of human rights in Musl…
Religious Freedom in Islam
The fundamental problem with this book is its deep Orientalist bias. To appreciate this point, imagine a book discussing African Americans and the rule of law. The key question this hypothetical book would seek to answer is whether African American culture is inhospitable to respecting the rule of law. Two schools of thought, the author suggests, should be studied. Black skeptics argue that a disdain for rule of law and an appetite for gang activ…
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (8 works) · Islam (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works)