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The ‘Outsiders of Islam’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Abdennour Bidar
Abdennour Bidar*
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Centre International de Valbonne, Sophia-Antipolis
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This paper deals with the question whether muslims who live in the West might be considered as the future outsiders of the Islamic world. It suggests that the muslims of the West might become those through whom, in a totally unexpected and unforeseen fashion, could come the progress – even the salvation – of an Islamic civilization that the author considers as currently locked into a state of moral, social, intellectual and spiritual stagnation. To this effect, the author focuses mainly on the notion of individual and of human rights, and discusses how the Islamic and Western traditions might be brought together. The concept of God, in its relation to the human, plays here an essential role, which is discussed with reference, among others, to the work of mohammad Iqbal.

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Diogenes , Volume 57 , Issue 2: Philosophy and Islam in Muslim Societies , May 2010, pp. 3 - 23
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Copyright © ICPHS 2010

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