Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na 'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University.
[A] controversial and topical book...Although not all Muslim
scholars will fully agree with An-Na'im's proposals regarding the
institutional separation of Islam and the state, his thoughts are a
step forward towards a healthy negotiation for the future of
Sharia.--Helen Haste"Times Higher Education Supplement"
(06/26/2008)
An-Na'im is an independent-minded intellectual who has raised
sensitive issues (such as his belief that interpretations of sharia
have led to discrimination against non-Muslim minorities in the
Arab world) that many Muslims and their advocates would prefer to
keep out of public debate...The crux of An-Na'im's "Islam and the
Secular State" is that Muslims should be allowed to practice their
faith as they see fit and should comply with sharia, but
voluntarily. The call from Islamists to impose sharia with the full
power of the state will only lead to totalitarianism, he argues. To
bolster his claim, he notes that the Koran never mentions the idea
of a state and does not prescribe a particular form of
government.--Geneive Abdo"Washington Post Book World"
(07/27/2008)
An-Na'im lays out with candor and elegance the need for the state
to be secular for all citizens, and explores Muslim polities in
Indonesia, India and Turkey.--Emran Qureshi"Globe and Mail"
(06/21/2008)
Few books in Islamic studies have been as eagerly awaited or
intenselydebated prior to publication as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im's
"Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of
Shari'a"...[This book] testifies to the richness of [Ahmed
An-Na'im's] life work, and to the courage of an author who deserves
to be recognized as one of the most important religious thinkers of
our age.--Robert Hefner "ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame "
Mak[es] a powerful theological case for abandoning the very notion
of an Islamic state. [An-Na'im] argues that the claims of these
so-called states to enforce the Sharia repudiate the fundamental
right of religious choice implicit in a Koranic verse that says
there can be "no compulsion in religion."--Malise Ruthven"New York
Review of Books" (05/29/2008)
Muslim scholar and human rights activist An-Na'im has written
extensively on law and human rights in the Islamic world. Here, he
turns to the subject of the state's coercive enforcement of
Sharia--Koran-based Islamic law--in predominantly Muslim societies,
arguing that its promulgation of Sharia is contrary to the Koranic
insistence on the voluntary acceptance of Islam and the freely
chosen adherence to its commandments.--William P. Collins"Library
Journal" (04/01/2008)
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