Can Islam and Liberalism Coexist?

21/12/2022 1h 16min Temporada 1 Episodio 7
Can Islam and Liberalism Coexist?

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If Muslims are committed to shariah and liberals are committed to individual freedom, can these two worldviews really coexist? Our guest, the Islamic legal theorist Mohammad Fadel, argues that Muslim citizens can accept, live in, and even flourish in a liberal society. Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk have questions. LINKS Mohammad Fadel on Islam and the liberal philosophy of John Rawls https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=977206 Matthew Kaemingk's article on the clash between public Islam and liberalism https://comment.org/the-headscarf-islams-gift-to-western-democracy/ John Rawls, Political Liberalism  John Rawls, "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited"