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AuthorChak, Farhan Mujahid
Available date2022-09-20T07:17:02Z
Publication Date2017
Publication NameAmerican Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS)
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v34i1.3047
CitationChak, F. M. (2017). The Post-Enlightenment Moral Crisis and the Emergence of Secular Tyranny in the Middle East. American Journal of Islam and Society, 34(1), 49–79. https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v34i1.3047
ISSN2690-3733
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/34234
AbstractThis article explores humanity’s ethical transformation during Europe’s post-Enlightenment era and assesses its impact upon the origins and development of secularism. Thereafter, it investigates how secularism was introduced into the Middle East, isolating that importation as directed through western colonialism or spellbound indigenous elites. Eventually, introducing secularism into the region’s socio-cultural milieu achieved nothing resembling what Europe or North America had experienced, particularly as regards the purported aims of social reconciliation, industrialization, and modernization. Without the European context, secularism emerged in a radically offensive manner, one that uprooted the local axiology and thereby leading to unprecedented levels of secular tyranny as well as entailing the justification of socio-economic and political oppression.
Languageen
Publisherthe International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
SubjectIslam and Politics
Enlightenment
the Middle East
Secularism
Fundamentalism
Elites
Tyranny
Conflict
TitleThe Post-Enlightenment Moral Crisis and the Emergence of Secular Tyranny in the Middle East
TypeArticle
Pagination49-79
Issue Number1
Volume Number34
ESSN2690-3741
dc.accessType Open Access


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