Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-345
Author(s):  
M. M. Gunter
Keyword(s):  
Islam And Secularism

Faiza Ambah's Mariam and the Embodied Politics of Veiling in France

Paragraph ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350
Author(s):  
Kaya Davies Hayon
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Islam And Secularism ◽  
The Impact

This article argues that Mariam uses its eponymous heroine's lived and embodied experiences of veiling to explore the impact of French secular legislation on Muslim schoolgirls' everyday lives in France. Interweaving secularism studies, feminism and phenomenology, I argue that the film portrays the headscarf as the primary means by which its protagonist is able to resist male patriarchal authority and negotiate her hybrid subjectivity. I conclude that Mariam offers a nuanced representation of veiling that troubles the perceived distinctions between Islam and secularism, oppression and freedom, and the veil and feminism in France and the West.

Part 1 Constitutionalism and Islam: Conceptual Issues, 1.1 Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: A Contemporary Perspective of Islamic Law

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamali Mohammad Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
General Characterization ◽  
The Third ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
Islam And Secularism ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter begins with a brief characterization of Islamic constitutional law and its underdeveloped status as compared with other branches of Islamic law. It then highlights salient differences between the Islamic and Western approaches to constitutional law and briefly discusses Islam and secularism. The next section provides a general characterization of the Islamic system of rule under four sub-headings. The first of these defines government in Islam as a trust (amānah); the second describes it as a limited and thus non-totalitarian government; the third addresses the Islamic system of rule as a qualified democracy; and the last characterizes it as a civilian not a theocratic system of government. The final section summarizes the main results of the preceding analysis and offers some tentative conclusions on the relationship between Islamic government and democratic constitutionalism.

A Dimension Reduction Method Application to a Political Science Question: Using Exploratory Factor Analysis to Generate the Dimensionality of Political Ideology in the Arab World

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 2040002
Author(s):  
Malek Abduljaber
Keyword(s):  
Dimension Reduction ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Stable Solution ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Arab Politics ◽  
Science Question ◽  
Islam And Secularism ◽  
Mass Level

This paper utilises data dimension reduction to settle a heavily debated question concerning the dimensionality of political ideology in the Arab World. It relies on recent data available through the World Values Survey to generate a stable solution for the number of important and exciting dimensions defining ordinary citizens’ political attitude structures. The findings of the analysis suggest that in four Arab states, political ideology is multi-dimensional on the mass level. This negates the widespread assumption made about Arab politics where Islam and secularism constitute the only dimension organising voters’ attitudes and behaviours. This is important because many analyses of Middle Eastern politics start with this assumption without questioning its validity. Further, models of political ideology are to be modified when transferred to studying Middle Eastern political attitudes. The single-dimension hypothesis applicable in some Western settings is not attainable in the Arab World.

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