Islamic Political Jurisprudence between Civilizational Grounding and the Secularist Tendency: A Comparative Study of the Thought of Malek Bennabi and Ali Abdel Raziq
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
An MA thesis comparing two opposing intellectual projects on the relationship between religion and the state. It traces Malek Bennabi’s thinking on the conditions of renaissance and “colonisability”, sets it against Ali Abdel Raziq’s thesis in Islam and the Foundations of Governance, and concludes by clarifying what civilizational grounding means for contemporary Islamic political jurisprudence.