Competing Theodicies: The Rabaa Massacre and the Problem of Suffering
The political failure of the Islamist project in Egypt was cemented after the 2013 military coup and subsequent massacre in Rabaa al-Adawiyya Square. For Islamist activists, their cultivation of moral and political agency was directly linked to their understanding of the problem of suffering and God...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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Political theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 6, Pages: 576-593 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt
/ Muslimbruderschaft
/ Rābiʿa-al-ʿAdawiyya-Platz (Cairo)
/ Massacre
/ Geschichte 2013
/ Theodicy
/ Islam
/ Arab Spring
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa NBC Doctrine of God TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
problem of suffering
B Theodicy B Rabaa Massacre B Egypt B sociodicy B Muslim Brotherhood B Arab Spring |
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| Summary: | The political failure of the Islamist project in Egypt was cemented after the 2013 military coup and subsequent massacre in Rabaa al-Adawiyya Square. For Islamist activists, their cultivation of moral and political agency was directly linked to their understanding of the problem of suffering and God's action. This article shows three accounts of theodicy. The first account is a traditional Islamist one exemplified in Sayyid Qutb's theodical interpretation of the story of the Christians of Najran in the Qur'an which affirms otherworldly retribution. The second account is an account of a citizen journalist in which he contends with the silence of God and the devaluation of Islamist theodicies. The final account is that of state theodicy – which has to contend with its “good fortune” thereby creating categories of legitimate suffering. These competing theodicies thus function in creating social and metaphysical structures of suffering and privilege. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2047257 |