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The overtly secular state of Singapore has unapologetically maintained an authoritarian approach to governance in the realm of religion. Islam is particularly managed by the state. Muslim activists thus have to meticulously navigate these realities - in addition to being a minority community - in order to maximize their influence in the political system. Significantly, Muslim activists are not a monolith: there exists a multitude of political and theological differences amongst them. This study analyses the following categories of Muslim activists: Islamic religious scholars (ulama), liberal Muslims, and the more conservative-minded individuals. Due to constricting political realities, many activists attempt to align themselves with the state, and call upon the state to be an arbiter in their disagreements with other factions. Though there are activists who challenge the state, these are by far in the minority, and are typically unable to assert their influence in a sustained manner.

Islam --- Muslims --- Authoritarianism. --- Islam. --- Muslim Activists. --- Secular State. --- Singapore.

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"The book is about the Tajiks, a Muslim community in Central Asia, their Sovietization, and their bloody civil war. The conflict was about the type of constitution that Tajikistan should adopt: Communist, secular, or based on the Islamic Shari'a. The parliamentary discussions aimed at preventing a war, and the armed struggle that ensued are both discussed in detail. Events are seen through the eyes of Safarali Kenjaev, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan at the time. The volume also includes the author's impressions and interviews gathered during his year-long residence (1993) in war-torn Tajikistan as IREX's man in Dushanbe."--

Bukhara. --- Central Asia. --- Cold War. --- Hanafi. --- Iran. --- Jadidists. --- Perestroika. --- Shari'a. --- Sovietization. --- Tajik independence. --- Tajikistan Civil War. --- Turkey. --- World War II. --- amirs. --- atheism;Wahhabism;radical Islam;ideology;secular state;regionalism;ethnicity. --- cadre. --- civil war. --- communism. --- economy. --- glasnost'. --- identity. --- infrastructure. --- nineteenth century. --- nomenklatura. --- politics. --- post-Soviet states. --- reconstruction. --- reform. --- religion. --- socialism. --- HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia. --- Tajikistan --- History. --- Shari’a. --- Wahhabism. --- atheism. --- ethnicity. --- glasnost’. --- ideology. --- radical Islam. --- regionalism. --- secular state. --- Bashiri, Iraj. --- Kenjaev, S. --- Kendzhaev, S. --- Kenzhaev, Safarali --- Kenjaev, Safaralī --- Bashirī, Ėraji --- بشيرى، ايرج

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For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For others, it violates the proper domains of both religion and politics. Yet, while there has been much discussion of the idea and ideals of the Islamic state, its possibilities and impossibilities, surprisingly little has been written about how this political formation is lived. For Love of the Prophet looks at the Republic of Sudan's twenty-five-year experiment with Islamic statehood. Focusing not on state institutions, but rather on the daily life that goes on in their shadows, Noah Salomon's careful ethnography examines the lasting effects of state Islamization on Sudanese society through a study of the individuals and organizations working in its midst. Salomon investigates Sudan at a crucial moment in its history-balanced between unity and partition, secular and religious politics, peace and war-when those who desired an Islamic state were rethinking the political form under which they had lived for nearly a generation. Countering the dominant discourse, Salomon depicts contemporary Islamic politics not as a response to secularism and Westernization but as a node in a much longer conversation within Islamic thought, augmented and reappropriated as state projects of Islamic reform became objects of debate and controversy. Among the first books to delve into the making of the modern Islamic state, For Love of the Prophet reveals both novel political ideals and new articulations of Islam as it is rethought through the lens of the nation.

Islamic law --- Islam and politics --- Islam --- Islam and state --- Sudan --- Politics and government --- British colonialism. --- ISIS. --- Inqadh regime. --- Islam. --- Islamic governance. --- Islamic politics. --- Islamic state project. --- Islamic state. --- Islamization. --- Mahdist Islamic political order. --- National Congress Party. --- National Unity. --- Sudan People's Liberation Movement. --- Sudan. --- Sudanese politics. --- Sudanese society. --- Sudanese students. --- Westernization. --- cultural sovereignty. --- ethnography. --- poetry revival. --- political history. --- political movements. --- political power. --- religion. --- secular state. --- secularism. --- state-building.

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Of the many challenges facing liberal democracy, none is as powerful and pervasive today as those posed by religion. These are the challenges taken up in Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary public life. The essays in this volume suggest that two important shifts have altered the balance between the competing obligations of citizenship and faith: the growth of religious pluralism and the escalating calls of religious groups for some measure of autonomy or recognition from democratic majorities. The authors--political theorists, philosophers, legal scholars, and social scientists--collectively argue that more room should be made for religion in today's democratic societies. Though they advocate different ways of carving out and justifying the proper bounds of "church and state" in pluralist democracies, they all write from within democratic theory and share the aim of democratic accommodation of religion. Alert to national differences in political circumstances and the particularities of constitutional and legal systems, these contributors consider the question of religious accommodation from the standpoint of institutional practices and law as well as that of normative theory. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and comparative focus, this volume makes a timely and much-needed intervention in current debates about religion and politics. The contributors are Nancy L. Rosenblum, Alan Wolfe, Ronald Thiemann, Michael McConnell, Graham Walker, Amy Gutmann, Kent Greenawalt, Aviam Soifer, Harry Hirsch, Gary Jacobsohn, Yael Tamir, Martha Nussbaum, and Carol Weisbrod.

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