Islam and liberal citizenship the search for an overlapping consensus /

• Main Author: March, Andrew F., 1976-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Citizenship (Islamic law); Muslims > Non-Muslim countries.; Pluralism > Religious aspects > Islam.; Liberalism > Religious aspects > Islam.; Citizenship > Europe.; Liberalism > Europe.; Islam and secularism > Europe.; Citizenship.; Islam and secularism.; Liberalism.; Muslims.; Pluralism.; RELIGION > Law. > Islam; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary; Dawsonera; Oxford Scholarship Online
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 350 p.)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index.
• ISBN: 9780199716173 (electronic bk.); 019971617X (electronic bk.); 9780195330960 (Cloth); 019533096X (Cloth)

Some argue that Muslims have no tradition of separation of church and state and therefore can't participate in secular, pluralist society. At the other extreme, some Muslims argue that it is the duty of all believers to resist western forms of government and to impose Islamic law. Andrew F. March demonstrates that there are very strong and authentically Islamic arguments for accepting the demands of citizenship in a liberal democracy, many of them found even in medieval works of Islamic jurisprudence. In fact, he shows, it is precisely the fact that Rawlsian political liberalism makes no claim.