What is it about?
Le cheikh et le calife shows that democratic practices—such as local and national forms of mobilization, and electoral and parliamentary politics—take shape in the intertwinement of religious and secular practices within Islamic movements. Rather than separating religion from politics, Islamic movements initiated new theological and political arrangements based on a division of labor between specialists of religion and politics, whereby practices within each sphere inform each other.
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Why is it important?
Reflected in representations of democracy grounded in Islamic theological-political language, institutional arrangements between religion and politics may be the basis for the wider development of forms of “Islamic democracy.”
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This book is a way to understand how contemporary Islamic movements can shape Islamic democratization and politics in the post-Arab spring era.
Youssef Belal
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This page is a summary of: Le cheikh et le calife, January 2011, OpenEdition,
DOI: 10.4000/books.enseditions.933.
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