Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on transliteration
- PART I CONTEMPORARY ISLAM IN CRISIS AND TRANSITION
- SECTION 1
- SECTION 2 ISLAMIC OR MODERN NATIONAL STATE?
- 3 Islam and Turkish Nationalism
- 4 For and against the Khilāfa
- 5 Islam and Arab Nationalism
- 6 An Islamic State for Pakistan?
- 7 Ἁllāl al-Fāsī: a Blend of Islam and Arab Nationalism
- PART II ISLAM IN THE MODERN NATIONAL STATE
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
5 - Islam and Arab Nationalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on transliteration
- PART I CONTEMPORARY ISLAM IN CRISIS AND TRANSITION
- SECTION 1
- SECTION 2 ISLAMIC OR MODERN NATIONAL STATE?
- 3 Islam and Turkish Nationalism
- 4 For and against the Khilāfa
- 5 Islam and Arab Nationalism
- 6 An Islamic State for Pakistan?
- 7 Ἁllāl al-Fāsī: a Blend of Islam and Arab Nationalism
- PART II ISLAM IN THE MODERN NATIONAL STATE
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
MUḤAMMAD AL-GHAZĀLĪ AND KHĀLID MUḤAMMAD KHĀLID
Rashīd Riḍā and Ἁli Ἁbd al-Rāziq are the protagonists of the two principal Islamic attitudes and tendencies in the age of nationalism, which came after the Muḥammad Ἁbduh phase of “modernism”. They set the tone and provided the framework for the continuing debate on the character of the sovereign independent states whose establishment marks the achievement of the first goal the national movement set itself against foreign domination and influence (colonialism and imperialism): this goal was self-determination. The debate is an essential part of the second phase whose goals are self-expression and self-fulfilment. For this reason it is not simply a theoretical exercise about the place of the Sharī‘a in the state in relation to its constitution, economic and social structure and culture. It is also of vital, practical importance, both internally and externally, in the battle of the mind that is to decide the place of these states in modern civilisation. The fate of the Sharī‘a will decide not only what Islam is to be today and tomorrow, but also what part it is to play in the confrontation between Europe and the East, between Islamic and Western civilisation.
This J. Schacht clearly recognised in 1932 when he discussed the problem of Sharī‘a and Qānūn in modern Egypt. He wrote then that the mixture of Sharī‘a and Qānūn was a phenomenon of transition.
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- Islam in the Modern National State , pp. 103 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1965