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European Muslims And the Secular State

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Jocelyne Cesari, Sean McLoughlin, Network of Comparative Research on Islam and Muslims in Europe
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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005 - History - 202 pages
Scholars, saints, and the state The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history. The Great Saljuqs, a Turkish-speaking tribe hailing from central Asia, ruled the eastern half of the Islamic world for a great portion of that time. In a far-reaching analysis that combines social, cultural, and political history, Omid Safi demonstrates how the Saljuqs tried to create a lasting political presence by joining forces with scholars and saints, among them a number of well-known Sufi Muslims, who functioned under state patronage. In order to legitimize their political power, Saljuq rulers presented themselves as champions of what they alleged was an orthodox and normative view of Islam. Their notion of religious orthodoxy was constructed by administrators in state-sponsored arenas such as madrasas and khanaqahs. Thus orthodoxy was linked to political loyalty, and disloyalty to the state was articulated in terms of religious heresy. Drawing on a vast reservoir of primary sources and eschewing anachronistic terms of analysis such as nationalism, Safi revises conventional views both of the Saljuqs as benevolent Muslim rulers and of the Sufis as timeless, ethereal mystics. He makes a significant contribution to understanding premodern Islam as well as illuminating the complex relationship between power and religious knowledge.
  

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Contents

Introduction
1
Discrimination and Claims for Equal Rights Amongst Muslims
25
Religious Authorities or Political Actors? The Muslim Leaders
71
Representing Islam
85
Muslim Leaders
99
The Churches the State
113
Authority
127
Islam and Young
143
Islamization Amongst Muslim
155
The Deobandi Ulama between
183
Index
197
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European Muslims and the Secular State - CHALLENGE | Liberty ...
European Muslims and the Secular State. Monday 12 December 2005, by Cesari Jocelyne, mcloughlin Sean · imprimer. The institutionalization of Islam in the ...
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Jocelyne Cesari and Sean Mcloughin (ed), European Muslims and the Secular State, London: Ashgate, 2005.
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Title: European muslims and the secular state /edited by Jocelyne Cesari, Se an mcloughlin, The Network of Comparative Research on Islam and Muslims in ...
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University of Leeds - Department of Theology and Religious Studies
A number of related outputs, including European Muslims and the Secular State, a volume co-edited with Jocelyne Cesari (CNRS Paris / Harvard University), ...
www.leeds.ac.uk/ trs/ staff/ sean_mcloughlin.htm

Library Notes Vol. XLI, No. 2 (April-June 2006)
European Muslims and the secular state / edited by Jocelyne Cesari and Sean mcloughlin. - Aldershot ; Burlington : Ashgate, c2005. - viii, 202 p. ...
www.iai.it/ sections/ pubblicazioni/ theinternationalspectator/ library_notes/ li_2006_2.htm

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