Once in a while a new book in religious studies comes out with a bold thesis, challenging old assumptions and raising some eyebrows. The Islamic Secular, a thick, dense, and elaborate monograph by Sherman A. Jackson, distinguished professor of religion at the University of Southern California, is one such book that deserves attention--by both Muslims and others who are interested in the destiny of Islam. For many people, including Muslims themselves, the terms "Islamic" and "secular" appear contradictory, and their amalgamation would coin only an oxymoron. But Jackson carefully makes sense of what he means by "the Islamic Secular": that Islamic law, namely the Shari'ah, does not cover all the vast areas of human experience and knowledge, leaving many spaces that are "secular," where Muslims can still act and think with a religious ethos.
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- Once in a while a new book in religious studies comes out with a bold 1
- Islamic Secular a thick dense and elaborate monograph by Sherman A. 1
- Jackson distinguished professor of religion at the University of Southern 1
- California is one such book that deserves attentionby both Muslims and 1
- For many people including Muslims themselves the terms Islamic and 1
- Islamic Secular that Islamic law namely the Shariʼah does not cover 1
- Now that is an important argument. But it still leaves us with many 1
- Islamic studies Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naʼim has argued 1
- I probed these questions in a book review I wrote for Religion Liberty 1
- Online a publication of the Acton Institute. I fully agree with An-Naʼim that 1
- You can read the whole review here The Islamic Secular and the Seeds 1
