{"product_id":"the-islamic-secular-hardcover","title":"The Islamic Secular - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSherman A. Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe basic point of the secular in the modern West is to \"liberate\" certain pursuits--the state, the economy, science--from the authority of religion. This is also assumed to be the goal and meaning of \"secular\" in Islam. Sherman Jackson argues, however, that that assumption is wrong. In Islam the \"secular\" was neither outside \"religion\" nor a rival to it. \"Religion,\" in Islam was not identical to Islam's \"sacred law,\" or \"\u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e.\" Nor did classical Muslim jurists see \u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e as the all-encompassing, exclusive means of determining what is \"Islamic.\" In fact, while, as religion, Islam's jurisdiction was unlimited, \u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e's jurisdiction, as a sacred law, was limited. In other words, while everything remained within the purview of the divine gaze of the God of Islam, not everything could be determined by \u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e or on the basis of its revelatory sources. Various aspects of state-policy, the economy, science, and the like were \"differentiated,\" from \u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e and its revelatory sources, without becoming non-religious or un-Islamic. Given the asymmetry between the circumference of \u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e and that of Islam as religion, not everything that fell outside the former fell outside the latter. In other words, an idea or action could be non-\u003cem\u003eshar'i\u003c\/em\u003e (not dictated by \u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e) without being non-Islamic, let alone anti-Islam. The ideas and actions that fall into this category are what Jackson terms \"the Islamic Secular.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrucially, the Islamic Secular differs from the Western secular in that, while the whole point of the Western secular is to liberate various pursuits from religion, the Islamic Secular differentiates these disciplines not from religion but simply from \u003cem\u003eshari'ah\u003c\/em\u003e. Similarly, while both secularization and secularism play key roles in the Western secular, both of these concepts are alien to the Islamic Secular, as the Islamic Secular seeks neither to discipline nor to displace religion, nor expand to its own jurisdiction at religion's expense. The Islamic Secular is a complement to religion, in effect, a \"religious secular.\" Nowhere are the practical implications of this more impactful than in Islam's relationship with the modern state. In this book, Jackson makes the case for the Islamic Secular on the basis of Islam's own pre-modern juristic tradition and shows how the Islamic Secular impacts the relationship between Islam and the modern state, including the Islamic State.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSherman A. Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e is King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Prior to that, he spent many years at the University of Michigan's Department of Middle East Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eIslamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi \u003c\/em\u003e(E.J. Brill, 1996), \u003cem\u003eIslam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2005), \u003cem\u003eIslam and the Problem of Black Suffering\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2009), and \u003cem\u003eSufism for Non-Sufis: Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.8 x 8.9 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429334237433,"sku":"9780197661789","price":88.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Te-PoYcSMw9780197661789.webp?v=1771445159","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-islamic-secular-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}