Abdou Filali-Ansary
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdou Filali-Ansary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdou |
| FAMILY NAME | Filali-Ansary |
| SIGNATURE | FILALI-ANSARY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Demos |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Chapter 2 A New Form of Religious Consciousness? Religion and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Contexts
Crediting God
Tocqueville suggested that "the people reign in the American political world like God over the universe.” This intuition anticipates the crisis in the secularization paradigm that has brought theology back as a fundamental part of sociological and political analysis. It has become more difficult to believe that humanity’s progress necessarily leads to atheism, or that it is possible to translate all that is good about religion into reasonable ter…
Islam, State, and Modernity
Tunisia
This article calls attention to the declaration by Tunisia’s Ennahda (Renaissance) party that it would abandon the traditional connection between religion and politics in Muslim contexts and instead engage in new approaches to politics based on a separation of activism from predication. The significance of this decision is discussed against a backdrop of the political history of Muslims and the thinking that has prevailed among most Muslims in th…
La quête de légitimité dans les contextes musulmans
Islam and the Foundations of Political Power
The publication of this essay in Egypt in 1925 took the contemporaries of Ali Abdel Razek by storm. At a time when there was widespread turmoil over the abolition of the caliphate by Ataturk in Turkey, Ali Abdel Razek, a religious cleric trained at Al-Azhar University, argued in favour of secularism. The abolition of the caliphate had re-ignited the question of Islam and its relationship to political power. This essay unleashed the Arab world’s f…
The Languages of the Arab Revolutions
The upheavals that have been shaking the Arab-Muslim world are revolutions in discourse as well as in the streets. Arabs are using not only traditional and religious vocabularies, but also a new set of expressions that are modern and represent popular aspirations. We now seem to be at a moment when large strata in Arab societies (and in developing countries more broadly) have reached a state of real disenchantment with utopias, and seem to be rea…
Imposture et rébellion
Imposture and Rebellion
This paper is devoted to an analysis of ma'ruf ar-Rusafi's work The Personality of Mohammed or the Elucidation of the Holy Enigma. While ar-Rusafi is traditionally known as a poet who combines great evocative power with a superb mastery of language and strict adherence to classical form, this canonical image is seriously complicated by the iconoclastic character of this book, completed in 1933 but unpublished until 2002. It totally rejects the or…
Misreading Muslim History
A review of The West and Islam: Religion and Political Thought in World History by Antony Black
Morocco's Elections
Morocco offers one of the most promising contexts for democratic transition not merely in the Arab-Muslim world but in the entire developing world today. Yet at the same time it is a place where generalized disenchantment seems as if it may be threatening to overwhelm organized politics, to take on shapes that go well beyond politically framed opposition, and to reach out beyond ideologies and institutions to shake the very foundations of the soc…
What Is Liberal Islam? The Sources of Enlightened Muslim Thought
Does the term liberal Islam make sense? What precisely does it mean? Does the Muslim world need a reformation? What would Islamic reform look like? Where does Islamic liberalism fit among the various currents of religious thought—including fundamentalist strains such as Wahhabism or Salafism—that are contending in the Islamic world today? Who are liberalism's leading figures? Does the work of Ibn Rushd (Averroës)—a medieval Islamic philosopher fr…
The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World
The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) While Alexis de Tocqueville was observing democracy at work in the New World, he constantly had in mind the prospects for democracy in Europe. Inspired by what he witnessed in America, he was led to ponder the processes through which democracy was emerging in tradition-laden societies like his native France. Comparison, or rather asymmetry, is always present in his thought. Thus whi…
Muslims and Democracy
Muslims and Democracy Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) The past is often held to weigh especially heavily on Muslim countries, particularly as regards their present-day receptivity to democracy. I do not dispute that past history has had an overwhelming and decisive influence in shaping the contemporary features and attitudes of Muslim societies. But the past that is most relevant today is not, as is commonly thought, the early centuries of Islamic hist…
Islam and Liberal Democracy
Islam and Liberal DemocracyThe Challenge Of Secularization Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) Robin Wright and Bernard Lewis both seem to address the question of whether there is an “Islamic Reformation” going on now, and if there is, what content, direction, and influence it is likely to have. The raising of this question betokens an important shift in the way that Western observers view the Islamic world. Wright and Lewis implicitly acknowledge that beh…
Ali Abderraziq et le projet de remise en ordre de la conscience islamique
Les rapports entre l'islam et la politique font l'objet d'un large dbat de nos jours, tant dans les pays musulmans qu'en Occident. A y regarder de prs, on a l'impression que ce dbat se droule dans deux sphres indpendantes, s'ignorant mutuellement : l'une dans les pays du Nord , l'autre dans les pays imprgns par l'islam. Dans ces deux environnements, la rflexion opre sur des concepts et se rfre des donnes diffrentes, conduisant souvent des laborat…
Muslims and Democracy
Muslims and Democracy Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) The past is often held to weigh especially heavily on Muslim countries, particularly as regards their present-day receptivity to democracy. I do not dispute that past history has had an overwhelming and decisive influence in shaping the contemporary features and attitudes of Muslim societies. But the past that is most relevant today is not, as is commonly thought, the early centuries of Islamic hist…
The Languages of the Arab Revolutions
The upheavals that have been shaking the Arab-Muslim world are revolutions in discourse as well as in the streets. Arabs are using not only traditional and religious vocabularies, but also a new set of expressions that are modern and represent popular aspirations. We now seem to be at a moment when large strata in Arab societies (and in developing countries more broadly) have reached a state of real disenchantment with utopias, and seem to be rea…
What Is Liberal Islam? The Sources of Enlightened Muslim Thought
Does the term liberal Islam make sense? What precisely does it mean? Does the Muslim world need a reformation? What would Islamic reform look like? Where does Islamic liberalism fit among the various currents of religious thought—including fundamentalist strains such as Wahhabism or Salafism—that are contending in the Islamic world today? Who are liberalism's leading figures? Does the work of Ibn Rushd (Averroës)—a medieval Islamic philosopher fr…
Islam and Liberal Democracy
Islam and Liberal DemocracyThe Challenge Of Secularization Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) Robin Wright and Bernard Lewis both seem to address the question of whether there is an “Islamic Reformation” going on now, and if there is, what content, direction, and influence it is likely to have. The raising of this question betokens an important shift in the way that Western observers view the Islamic world. Wright and Lewis implicitly acknowledge that beh…
Tunisia
This article calls attention to the declaration by Tunisia’s Ennahda (Renaissance) party that it would abandon the traditional connection between religion and politics in Muslim contexts and instead engage in new approaches to politics based on a separation of activism from predication. The significance of this decision is discussed against a backdrop of the political history of Muslims and the thinking that has prevailed among most Muslims in th…
The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World
The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) While Alexis de Tocqueville was observing democracy at work in the New World, he constantly had in mind the prospects for democracy in Europe. Inspired by what he witnessed in America, he was led to ponder the processes through which democracy was emerging in tradition-laden societies like his native France. Comparison, or rather asymmetry, is always present in his thought. Thus whi…
Ali Abderraziq et le projet de remise en ordre de la conscience islamique
Les rapports entre l'islam et la politique font l'objet d'un large dbat de nos jours, tant dans les pays musulmans qu'en Occident. A y regarder de prs, on a l'impression que ce dbat se droule dans deux sphres indpendantes, s'ignorant mutuellement : l'une dans les pays du Nord , l'autre dans les pays imprgns par l'islam. Dans ces deux environnements, la rflexion opre sur des concepts et se rfre des donnes diffrentes, conduisant souvent des laborat…
Islam and Liberal Democracy
Islam and Liberal DemocracyThe Challenge Of Secularization Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) Robin Wright and Bernard Lewis both seem to address the question of whether there is an “Islamic Reformation” going on now, and if there is, what content, direction, and influence it is likely to have. The raising of this question betokens an important shift in the way that Western observers view the Islamic world. Wright and Lewis implicitly acknowledge that beh…
Muslims and Democracy
Muslims and Democracy Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) The past is often held to weigh especially heavily on Muslim countries, particularly as regards their present-day receptivity to democracy. I do not dispute that past history has had an overwhelming and decisive influence in shaping the contemporary features and attitudes of Muslim societies. But the past that is most relevant today is not, as is commonly thought, the early centuries of Islamic hist…
The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World
The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World Abdou Filali-Ansary (bio) While Alexis de Tocqueville was observing democracy at work in the New World, he constantly had in mind the prospects for democracy in Europe. Inspired by what he witnessed in America, he was led to ponder the processes through which democracy was emerging in tradition-laden societies like his native France. Comparison, or rather asymmetry, is always present in his thought. Thus whi…
What Is Liberal Islam? The Sources of Enlightened Muslim Thought
Does the term liberal Islam make sense? What precisely does it mean? Does the Muslim world need a reformation? What would Islamic reform look like? Where does Islamic liberalism fit among the various currents of religious thought—including fundamentalist strains such as Wahhabism or Salafism—that are contending in the Islamic world today? Who are liberalism's leading figures? Does the work of Ibn Rushd (Averroës)—a medieval Islamic philosopher fr…
Morocco's Elections
Morocco offers one of the most promising contexts for democratic transition not merely in the Arab-Muslim world but in the entire developing world today. Yet at the same time it is a place where generalized disenchantment seems as if it may be threatening to overwhelm organized politics, to take on shapes that go well beyond politically framed opposition, and to reach out beyond ideologies and institutions to shake the very foundations of the soc…
Misreading Muslim History
A review of The West and Islam: Religion and Political Thought in World History by Antony Black
Imposture et rébellion
Imposture and Rebellion
This paper is devoted to an analysis of ma'ruf ar-Rusafi's work The Personality of Mohammed or the Elucidation of the Holy Enigma. While ar-Rusafi is traditionally known as a poet who combines great evocative power with a superb mastery of language and strict adherence to classical form, this canonical image is seriously complicated by the iconoclastic character of this book, completed in 1933 but unpublished until 2002. It totally rejects the or…
Islam and the Foundations of Political Power
The publication of this essay in Egypt in 1925 took the contemporaries of Ali Abdel Razek by storm. At a time when there was widespread turmoil over the abolition of the caliphate by Ataturk in Turkey, Ali Abdel Razek, a religious cleric trained at Al-Azhar University, argued in favour of secularism. The abolition of the caliphate had re-ignited the question of Islam and its relationship to political power. This essay unleashed the Arab world’s f…
The Languages of the Arab Revolutions
The upheavals that have been shaking the Arab-Muslim world are revolutions in discourse as well as in the streets. Arabs are using not only traditional and religious vocabularies, but also a new set of expressions that are modern and represent popular aspirations. We now seem to be at a moment when large strata in Arab societies (and in developing countries more broadly) have reached a state of real disenchantment with utopias, and seem to be rea…
La quête de légitimité dans les contextes musulmans
Islam, State, and Modernity
Tunisia
This article calls attention to the declaration by Tunisia’s Ennahda (Renaissance) party that it would abandon the traditional connection between religion and politics in Muslim contexts and instead engage in new approaches to politics based on a separation of activism from predication. The significance of this decision is discussed against a backdrop of the political history of Muslims and the thinking that has prevailed among most Muslims in th…
Chapter 2 A New Form of Religious Consciousness? Religion and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Contexts
Crediting God
Tocqueville suggested that "the people reign in the American political world like God over the universe.” This intuition anticipates the crisis in the secularization paradigm that has brought theology back as a fundamental part of sociological and political analysis. It has become more difficult to believe that humanity’s progress necessarily leads to atheism, or that it is possible to translate all that is good about religion into reasonable ter…
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