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Mysticism in contemporary Islamic political thought: Orhan Pamuk and Abdolkarim Soroush.(Essay)
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March 22, 2006
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"You know, I've had enough of big ideas." (2)
Whether due to Western-style schemes of "development," Marxism, nationalism, secularism, or Islamism, the Islamic world has suffered its share of ideological activism. What these ideologies share is a "big idea," or ideology, that purports to transform the Islamic world into a modern post-industrial economy, Marxist utopia, collection of nations, liberal democracy, and caliphate, respectively. Today, Muslims find themselves torn between some version of secularism that wishes to remove "irrational" Islam from public life, and an Islamism that wishes to direct the totalizing political control of Islam into all facets of public ...
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