Muslim Kingship and the Problem of Un-Conversion
The transcendence of divinity in Islam along with submission to God as the ultimate sovereign created a host of challenges for Muslim kings in their formal, legalistic interactions with non-monotheists, especially those communities who perceived the divine as immanent in nature and did not make a di...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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Political theology
Jahr: 2022, Band: 23, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 90-105 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Asien
/ Islam
/ König
/ Übertretung
/ Politische Theologie
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik BJ Islam KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika KBM Asien |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
religious encounters
B Islam B Muslim Kingship B religous boundary-crossing B Conversion B rituals of sovereignty |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The transcendence of divinity in Islam along with submission to God as the ultimate sovereign created a host of challenges for Muslim kings in their formal, legalistic interactions with non-monotheists, especially those communities who perceived the divine as immanent in nature and did not make a distinction between the veneration of kings and the worship of gods. While the preferred biblical mode for smoothing such engagements between the believer and non-believer was “conversion” of the latter, this approach was often neither possible nor desirable from the perspective of Muslim rulers in Asia. Thus, in many cases, Muslim kings practiced a transgressive form of boundary crossing and translation across religious divisions erected by biblical monotheism, what I call “un-conversion,” by deliberately bypassing or overriding the scriptural requirements of Islam. This essay examines the theoretical implications of such un-conversions for our understanding of sovereignty and political theology in Islam. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.2014626 |