The Transformation of the Discourse on Secularism/the Civil State in Arab Academic Writings Post Arab Spring
The Transformation of the Discourse on Secularism/the Civil State in Arab Academic Writings Post Arab Spring
Author(s): Sari HanafiSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Theory, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Politics and religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Arab Spring; secularism; Arab world; French style secularism; Islamism
Summary/Abstract: Since the start of the Arab Spring, no topic has been more polarizing to elites than secularism, the civil state, and political Islam. In this article, I will analyze the academic literature written by researchers and sometimes political activists in journals published in the Arab world on this topic. I will conduct a quantitative (bibliometric) and qualitative analysis of this literature (149 articles), in order to try to answer the following questions: To which extent is there interest in these topics in academic journals? How did these writers address the topic of secularism or the civil state? How do leftist/secular/liberal trends on the one hand and Islamic trends on the other interact with the issue of secularism? What type of journals are these?
Journal: Filozofija i društvo
- Issue Year: 35/2024
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 625-644
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
