Traditional Secularism v. Modern Secularism A Word on the Nature of Fiqh and the Related Constitutional System

This research attempts to put forward an argument against the claim that the current legal/political system of Iran is undergoing a re-secularization process. It is argued, by focusing on concepts of the secular and the sacred/religious, that the system was never de-secularized by the Islamic Revolu...

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1. VerfasserIn: Rāsiḫ, Muḥammad 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage 2023
In: Critical research on religion
Jahr: 2023, Band: 11, Heft: 1, Seiten: 48-62
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Iran / Islamische Revolution / Säkularisierung / Fikh
RelBib Classification:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
BJ Islam
KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika
TK Neueste Zeit
XA Recht
weitere Schlagwörter:B Exogenous
B Endogenous
B the Religious
B Fiqh
B Sacred
B Modernism
B Secularism
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Zusammenfassung:This research attempts to put forward an argument against the claim that the current legal/political system of Iran is undergoing a re-secularization process. It is argued, by focusing on concepts of the secular and the sacred/religious, that the system was never de-secularized by the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The reason derives from the facts that the main allegedly religious content of the new system is per se a secular entity, and that the existing constitutional structure is overwhelmingly secular. The content overwhelmingly originates in fiqh which is argued to be a secular entity, i.e., an amoral one, as it accommodates immorality. It is then claimed that what occurred by the Revolution was indeed the triumph of a traditional secularism over an exogenous modern secular establishment. Therefore, since the early months of the new regime a process of re-modernization, an endogenous one, has gradually taken form.
ISSN:2050-3040
Enthält:Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/20503032221148469