Open Access‘ALI ‘ABD AL-RAZIQ AS A FATHER OF ISLAMIC SECULARISM
Author(s) -
Н. В. Ефремова
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
islam v sovremennom mire
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-7221
pISSN - 2074-1529
DOI - 10.22311/2074-1529-2018-14-3-93-114
Subject(s) - caliphate , islam , nothing , secularism , context (archaeology) , politics , power (physics) , law , political science , religious studies , classics , history , ancient history , theology , philosophy , epistemology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
The article deals with the work of one of the most outstanding representative of modern Muslim reformation but still has not been thoroughly studied in our country, Egyptian sheikh Ali Abdarraziq (1888-1966), the author of a famous book “Islam and the Foundations of Political Power” (1925). He was the rst Muslim theologian who evoked the idea of desacralization of caliphate and argumented the statement that Divine Law, in its essence, has nothing to do with the organization of political power. In the rst part the personality of Ali Abdarraziq is presented in the historical context, with a focus on a pressing struggle for the restauration of Caliphate abolishedin 1924 due to Kemalist reforms. Against this restauration, namely, Abdarraziq directed his book. Here is analyzed the sharp discussion raised by the book in wide circles of Egyptian society, its critics and court trial organized by the ulemas of al-Azhar. The work of Abdarraziq is to become the most disputable since the times of book-printing in the Arab countries. It in uenced greatly the following Muslim thought and till now acts a so-called guiding star for the modernists-secularists in all the Islamic world.