Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle

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ID4313893
AuthorsSiavash Saffari (0000-0001-8177-0426, Seoul National University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume14
Issue9
Pages1088
Publication date2023-08-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel14091088
OpenAlexW4386070181
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

Building on previous studies on a mid- and late-twentieth-century recasting of Islam's doctrine of monotheism, or tawhid, as a distinctly Islamic framework for liberative praxis, this article considers the interplay between the particular and the universal in the tawhidic paradigms of Iranian lay theologian Ali Shariati (1933-1977) and African-American pro-faith and pro-feminist theologian amina wadud (b. 1952). The article proposes that although it was developed in a distinctly Islamic register by means of Quranic exegesis and intrareligious conversations, the tawhidic paradigm has always been conversant with a range of non-Islamic liberative paradigms, and these conversations have been integral to the negotiation of a more inclusive concept of tawhid. To continue to recast tawhid in a more inclusive register, the article further argues, requires taking account of the non-Muslim 'other' as an equal moral agent in liberative struggles and embracing Islam's theological and ideological 'others' as equally significant repositories of liberative potential

Epistemology · Exegesis · Faith · Ideology · Islam · Monotheism · Paradigm shift · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

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