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The Desacralisation of Power in Islam
Carney, Abd Al-Hakeem
Carney, Abd Al-Hakeem
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"As Islamic 'revivalist' groups have spread in numbers and influence throughout the world the belief that Islam is a political religion has become entrenched amongst Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Islam's totalising ethical system is seen to find its ultimate expression in the ideal of religion as political praxis, where Islam's imple- mentation is incomplete so long as spiritual and temporal authority are not united in a single state and authority is given to none other than God. I This view manifests traditional bipolar classification schemes which see equal use by western com- mentators and Islamic 'fundamentalists' when dealing with each other. "
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2003
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