Liberalism and Islam practical reconciliation between the liberal state and Shiite Muslims /

• Main Author: Haidar, Hamid Hadji.
• Corporate Author: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Subjects: Liberalism.; Shīʻah.; Islam and politics.; Islam and state.; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies.; Islam.; Islamic studies.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > Political Ideologies; Politics and Government.; Schiiten.; Liberalismus.; Electronic books.
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This book examines the possibility of reconciliation between liberalism and Shiite Islam. By examining two key liberal theories, this book shows that secular liberalism is not justifiable in the view of Shiite Islamic thought. Yet, since the liberal state is tolerant of Shiite Muslim citizens, at th...

Table of Contents:

• Mill's deeply secular liberalism
• Mill's methodology
• Mill's utilitarian moral theory
• Mill's liberty principle
• Rawls's mildly secular liberalism
• Rawls's methodology
• Rawls's egalitarian moral theory
• Rawls's liberty principle
• The liberal state and Shiite Muslim citizens
• Toleration of Shiite Muslims by the liberal state
• Acceptability of the liberal state to Shiite Muslims.