Islam and Europe : Crises Are Challenges.

Intro -- ISLAM &amp -- EUROPE Crises are Challenges -- Table of Contents -- Foreword and Acknowledgements Islam and the Requirements of Liberal Democratic Principles -- Part I The Islamic Challenge: Faith, Gender and Politics -- Introductionary Speech -- Islam and Politics: Towards Post-Islamism? -- What History Teaches Us -- Colonialism and Political Islam -- The Next Caliph -- You Cannot Govern a Country With the Qur'an -- Conclusion: Towards a Post-Islamism? -- Human Rights and Islam -- Human Rights -- Current Debates in Islam -- Interpreting Islam -- Penetrations: A Psycho-Cultural View of Modernity, Fundamentalisms and Islam -- Abstract -- Modernity and the Self -- Cartesianism and Loss of the Symbolic -- Cartesian-Christianism -- (Cartesian-Christianist) Islamism -- Self and Other -- References -- Part II The Islamic Challenge: Islam and the Secular State -- Acknowledgments -- An-Na`im and His Work Toward an Islamic Reformation: A Short Introduction -- An-na`im -- His Work -- Toward an Islamic Reformation -- Discrimination -- Slavery -- Islam and the Secular State: A Step Forward? -- 'European Islam or Islamic Europe': The Secular State for Negotiating Pluralism -- Introduction -- The Need for a Secular State -- Contextual Mediation of Tensions -- Process of Civic Reason and Reasoning -- The Contingent Role of Religion in Influencing Public Policy -- Concluding Remarks -- The 'Secularization' of Shari'a in Iran -- Resurrecting Siyar Through Fatwas? (Re)constructing 'Islamic International Law' in a Post-(Iraq) Invasion World -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Contextualizing Siyar, Jihad and Fatwas in the Islamic Legal Tradition and the Contemporary World: an Analytical Overview -- The Nature of Siyar and Jihad Within the Islamic Legal Tradition.

Fatwas as an Interpretative Vehicle of Siyar and Jihad: An Exploratory Overview in Light of 'Internet Fatwas' on the Iraq War and Muslim Responses to the Invasion -- The Indian Dimension of An-Na`im's Islam and the Secular State -- The Global Relevance of Islam and the Secular State -- India and Secularism -- The Shari'a and Judges -- References -- European Foreign Policy and the Universality of Human Rights -- Abstract -- 1. Ratification and Constitutionalization as Vehicles for Universalization of Human Rights -- 2. Cultural Arguments -- 3. Margin of Appreciation -- 4. Universality of Human Rights and Cultural Variation: Distinguishing Concepts and Conceptions -- 5. Designing a European Foreign Policy in Relation to 'Cultural Exceptions' to Universal Human Rights -- 6. Support for Grassroots Initiatives -- 7. Credibility of a European Universal Human Rights Strategy -- 8. Accommodating Non-Western Traditions in Human Rights-Based Western Legal Systems -- 9. Concluding Observations -- Compromising of Gender Equality Rights - Through the Recognition of Muslim Marriages in South Africa -- Introduction -- Legal Framework -- Law Reform Efforts by the South African Law Reform Commission -- Analysis of the Draft Bill -- Conclusion -- References -- Islam and the Democratic State under the Rule of Law - and Never the Twain Shall Meet? -- Abstract -- Introduction: The Concept of Democracy under the Rule of Law and Islamic Norms -- Muslim Positions and Attitudes Towards the European Secular Democratic State Under the Rule of Law -- The 'Muddling Through' Approach (Pragmatics) -- The 'Ex-Muslim' Approach -- Exclusivist Approaches -- Traditionalistic Approaches -- Religious Positions of Civic Entrenchment and Their Historical Burden -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Toward the Triumph of Reason -- List of contributors.

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