Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)

The debate on Islam and secularism in Egypt.

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) | March 22, 1996 | Copyright

INTRODUCTION

The intellectual crisis agitating muslim minds today centers on the relationship between modern Muslims and their past. For the last two centuries, Muslims have found themselves caught up between authenticity (attachment to their values and culture) and modernity. They view most Western ideas, ideologies and institutions as a threat to Islamic law, values and culture. Among these foreign imports, secularism seems to represent the greatest danger. As separation of religion and state, secularism was first championed by Christian writers like Ya'qub Sarruf, Faris…

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