Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. 1. Introduction
5. Introduction 9
6. 1.1 The concept of justice in Arabo-Islamic and Western philosophy 12
7. 1.2 The significance of postcolonial theory for the Maghrebian context 24
8. 2. Background and methods in the thought of Fatima Mernissi
9. Introduction 29
10. 2.1 The concept of secular humanism: The necessity of emancipating Islamic thought from religious and nationalist conceptions 45
11. 2.2 The concept of justice in the modern era: The entanglement of descriptive and normative claims of justice theories 56
12. 2.3 The rereading of ninth-century early Arabo-Islamic thought: The theorization of notions of justice through Mernissi’s transcultural and humanistic approaches 77
13. 2.4 Transdisciplinary approaches to establish gender justice within the framework of Islamic feminism 96
14. 2.5 The relevance of Mernissi’s feminist thought for a transcultural approach to feminism 138
15. 2.6 Conclusion on the thought of Fatima Mernissi 151
16. 3. Background and methods in the thought of Mohammed Arkoun
17. Introduction 155
18. 3.1 Mohammed Arkoun’s rereading of the Islamic thought of Miskawayh (d. 1030): A multifaceted concept of justice 165
19. 3.2 The method of applied Islamology: A transcultural and transdisciplinary key for the renewal of Islamic studies 189
20. 3.3 Toward an emancipation from hegemonic constructions: The critique of orthodoxy, Arab nationalism, and Euro-modernism 222
21. 3.4 The concept of emerging reason: A key for a democratic and cosmopolitan project 241
22. 3.5 Conclusion on the thought of Mohammed Arkoun 254
23. 4. Epilogue: Theorizing justice in contemporary Arabo-Islamic philosophy
24. Introduction 261
25. 4.1 The common approach to theorizing justice by Fatima Mernissi and Mohammed Arkoun 262
26. 4.2 On the relevance of a cosmopolitan theory of justice based on a transcultural approach 266
27. Bibliography 275