Representation of the ideas of secularism in the Islamic world in the thought of Mohammed Arkoun

Author

PH.D. of Islamic History

Abstract

Since the 1970s, Mohammed Arkoun (1928-2010) has worked on projects such as "Islamic Criticism, " "Applied Islamology, " and "Prospective Critical Wisdom" with the goal of monitoring and conducting Islamic studies as well as the crisis of the Islamic-Arab world. Secularism is one of Erkon's special values in his thought. This article takes a descriptive-analytical approach to Arkoun's ideas on secularism in the Islamic world.Questions: What, in Arkoun's opinion, is the definition and fundamentals of secularism? Is Arkoun's secularism a reasonable alternative to religious debate? Findings: According to his reading, secularism is a schema that developed in Western countries in opposition to theocracy. He regards the duality of Islam and secularism as one of the most difficult issues in recent Islamic thought, and he regards the implementation of secularism in Islamic societies as making significant progress. One of Arkoun's innovations is the division of secularism in Islamic history into four periods. Secularism, according to him, had no place in the Prophetic era and only began with the Umayyad caliphate and developed during the monarchy. With three experiences in France, Lebanon, and Turkey, Arkoun also introduced the dual of open and coercive secularism. Coercive secularism has marginalized religious discourse in opposition to social discourses, and it is a failed experiment. However, free secularism is a progressive path that includes the establishment of modernism components such as gender equality, democracy, and so on. Arkoun viewed secularism as a method of governing the socio-political arena rather than as an alternative ideology to religion.

Keywords

Main Subjects

References

  • Arkon, Muhammad (1986). "Al-Islam and Al-Alamna", Arab Studies Journal - Economic and Social Intellectual Journal, 5th edition, Beirut: Dar al-Taliyah.
  • Arkoun Mohammed (1982). Al-Fikr al-Arabi, translated by: Adel Al-Awa, Algeria: Diwan Al-Mahabbat Al-Jaamiyeh.
  • Arkoun Mohammed (1989)-(A). "Al-Islamic Principles of Human Rights", Al-Fikr al-Arabi Modern Magazine, A.D. 62-63, Beirut: Al-Anma Al-Qoumi Center.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (1989)-(b). "Dialogue of the Beginnings with Arkun", Al-Fikr al-Arabi al-Mawra'a al-Laghe-, edited by Mohammad Rafrafi, 68-69 AD, Beirut: Al-Anmaa Al-Qoumi Center.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (1990). "The Concept of Al-Sultah in Al-Islamic Thought - Al-Hakim Il-Allah -" Al-Fikr al-Arabi magazine, (Al-Shari'ah between Al-Muhammad and Al-Dawlah), A.D. 72-73, Beirut: Al-Maqarah al-Anmaa al-Qoumi.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (1993). Al-Fikr al-Islami criticism and ijtihad, translated by: Hashim Saleh, Algeria: Al-Mosseh al-Wataniyyah al-Kitab.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (1996). Al-Alamna wa Al-Din – Al-Islam al-Masihiya al-Gharb, translated by: Hashim Saleh, Beirut: Dar al-Saqi.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (1996). Al-Islami Al-Fikr Al-Islami History, translated by: Hashim Saleh, Vol. 2, Beirut: Al-Anma Al-Qoumi Center.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (1998). Historiography of Al-Fakr al-Islami, translated by: Hashem Saleh, Beirut: Al-Anma Al-Qoumi Center.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (2001). Al-Islam Oruba Al-Gharb – Rahanat Al-Mu’ani and Aradat Al-Himenah, translated by: Hashim Saleh, Beirut: Dar al-Saqi.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (2001). B-Mubarak Man Ajal Al-Ansana fi al-Siyaqat al-Islamiyya, translated by: Hashim Saleh, Beirut: Dar al-Saqi.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (2004). "The interaction between the state of law and the civil community, the new appearance of the latter", Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Journal, AH 9385.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (2007). Al-Islam Al-Akhlaq and Al-Siyaseh, translated by: Hashem Saleh, Beirut: Al-Anma Al-Qoumi Center.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (2008). Man, Manhattan to Baghdad -Beyond good and evil-, translated by: Aqeel al-Sheikh Hossein, Beirut: Dar al-Saqi.
  • Arkoun Muhammed (Beta). Islam and Al-Hahadah, translated by: Hashim Saleh, Syria: Darbadiyat.
  • Boghura, Al-Zawawi (2018). "Islam and secularism in the thought of Muhammad Arkun", translation: Majid Minhaji, Tarikh Nameh, p. 7, p. 28.
  • Boghura, Al-Zawawi (2019). Michel Foucault in Contemporary Arab Thought (Mohammed Abed Al-Jaber, Mohammad Erkoun, Fathi Al-Tariki and Motaa Safadi), translated by: Majid Minhaji, Tehran: Negah Maaser.
  • Ben Ashour, Ayaz (1991). Consciousness and Shari'i: al-Uqliyyah al-Madaniyyah and al-Hawqul al-Hadithah, Al-Dar al-Bayda: Al-Maqruz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi.
  • Belaliya, Mohammad (2009). "History of Al-Salafiyyah in Algeria", Al-Khabra al-Bua'i, AH 526, March 25-31.
  • Butreh, Saad (2018). "Muhammad Arkun and the problems of the connections between Al-Siyadah Al-Alia and Al-Salta Al-Siyasiyah in Islam", Al-Hikma Magazine for Philosophical Studies, vol. 6, p. 1, (52-34).
  • Alhaj, Kamil (2000). Al-Musua'a fi al-fikr al-philosophical and social thought, Beirut: Lebanese School of Publishing.
  • Hamani, Kamran (1400). "The role of religious conflicts in the economic weakening of the artisans of Baghdad in the fourth and fifth centuries AH. Q", Journal of Historical Researches of Iran and Islam, Volume 15, Number 28 - Serial Number 28, Spring and Summer (pages 206-187).
  • Hamzah, Mohammad (2018). Reading Muslim modern thinkers (with an emphasis on the methodology of Abdul Majid Ashrafi and Mohammad Arkoon), translated by: Majid Menhaji, Tehran: Farahikhtegan Heritage Publications.
  • Al-Hawali, Safar (1999). secularism; Origins, developments, and works of Al-Hayah al-Islamiyyah Modernity, Biyaba: Dar al-Hijra.
  • Al-Jamil, Siyar (1997). Al-Arab and al-Atrak al-Ibna'ath al-Hadith -Man al-Uthmana to al-Alamna-, Beirut: Center for Al-Wahda Al-Arabiya Studies.
  • Zarrokhi, Ismail (2003). Ali al-Fikr al-Arabi, Algeria: Mentouri Community Press.
  • Al-Shabaab, Mohammad Khaled (2011). "Jadal al-Din and al-Dawlah in modern Arab thought (Burahan Ghalyun, Mohammad Arkun and Rashid al-Ghannooshi for example)", Darasat al-Uloom al-Insaniyah and Al-Sahiliyyah al-Jamieh al-Jordaniyah, vol. 38, p. 3.
  • Sharfi, Abdul Majid (1993). "Al-Ulamna fi al-Mujabaat al-Arabiyyah al-Islamiyyah al-Hadithah", Al-Fikr al-Mu'daqeen magazine, A.D. 92-93, Beirut: Al-Anama al-Qoumi Center.
  • Sharfi, Mohammad (2002). Al-Islam and Al-Hurriyya, Al-Tabas al-Tarikhi, Tunisia: Dar al-Junub Publishing House.
  • Saleh, Hashem (1987). "Between the concept of Orthodoxy and al-Uqliyyah al-Doghma'iyyah", Al-Fakr Al-Arabi Al-Mawdakhin Magazine, A. 43, Beirut: Al-Anama Al-Qoumi Center.
  • Asfour, Jaber (1990). Islam of oil and al-hadadah, London: Nadu al-Islam and al-hadadah.
  • Qaradawi, Yusuf (1989). Al-Islam and Al-Alamaniyyah, Al-Jahrah, Algeria: Al-Rehab School.
  • Qasimpour, Ibrahim (2019). "Comparison of the Similarities and Differences of Religious Modernism in Iran and Egypt (Based on the Opinions of Sheikh Hadi Najmabadi and Sheikh Mohammad Abduh)", Journal of Historical Researches of Iran and Islam, Volume 14, Number27 - Serial Number 27, Autumn and Winter (Page 179- 204)
  • Old Qedari (1392). "Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Dissolution of the Caliphate", Journal of Historical Researches of Iran and Islam, Volume 7, Number 13 - Serial Number 13, Spring and Summer (pages 63-90).
  • Murad, Imran (2016). Al-Alamna and Muhammad Arkoun, Algeria: All sciences of humanities and social sciences.
Journal of Historical Researches of Iran and Islam
Volume 16, Issue 31 - Serial Number 31
Articles
December 2022
Pages 457-485

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 06 October 2021
  • Revise Date: 18 March 2022
  • Accept Date: 03 September 2022

Share

How to cite

Statistics