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Islam in Movement. Between Reformism and Jihadism
Published as Islam in movimento. Tra riformismo e jihadismo (Ananke Lab, 2018), this book by Paolo Gonzaga explores the contemporary currents of political Islam.
Egypt’s centrality in the development of Islamic political thought is shown first by the Nahda, the Islamic renaissance, and then by the importance of the Muslim Brotherhood, not only in the country but across the Middle East. While the Nahda conveys the best of the Islamic rationalist heritage, political Islam has opened the way to two opposing currents: reformism on the one hand and, on the other, the phenomenon leading to jihadist radicalism embodied by al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
Through intellectual figures and previously unpublished translations of key texts, the author highlights a new reformist era, understood as the capacity to reconcile the best of the Islamic tradition with the best of Western humanism: a concrete response to jihadist extremism, whose theoretical construction and manipulation of scripture are examined, and a path to reopen interreligious and intercultural dialogue.
Paru sous le titre Islam in movimento. Tra riformismo e jihadismo (Ananke Lab, 2018), cet ouvrage de Paolo Gonzaga explore les courants contemporains de l’islam politique.
La centralité de l’Égypte dans l’élaboration de la pensée politique islamique se manifeste d’abord par la Nahda, la renaissance islamique, puis par l’importance qu’a eue le mouvement des Frères musulmans, non seulement dans le pays mais dans tout le Moyen-Orient. Si la Nahda transmet le meilleur de l’héritage rationaliste islamique, l’islam politique a ouvert la voie à deux courants opposés : d’un côté le réformisme, de l’autre le phénomène qui conduit au radicalisme djihadiste, illustré par al-Qaïda et l’État islamique.
À travers des figures d’intellectuels et des traductions inédites de textes fondamentaux, l’auteur met en lumière une nouvelle ère réformiste, entendue comme la capacité à concilier le meilleur de la tradition islamique avec le meilleur de l’humanisme occidental. Une réponse concrète à l’extrémisme djihadiste, dont sont examinés la construction théorique et la manipulation des Écritures, et une voie pour rouvrir le dialogue interreligieux et interculturel.
صدر هذا الكتاب بعنوان Islam in movimento. Tra riformismo e jihadismo (دار Ananke Lab، 2018) للباحث باولو غونزاغا، ويتناول التيارات المعاصرة للإسلام السياسي.
تتجلّى مركزية مصر في بلورة الفكر السياسي الإسلامي أولاً عبر النهضة، ثم عبر الأهمية التي اكتسبتها جماعة الإخوان المسلمين، لا في البلد وحده بل في الشرق الأوسط كله. وبينما تنقل النهضة أفضل ما في التراث العقلاني الإسلامي، فتح الإسلام السياسي الطريق أمام تيارَين متعارضَين: الإصلاحية من جهة، ومن جهة أخرى الظاهرة التي تقود إلى التطرف الجهادي الذي يجسّده تنظيما القاعدة وداعش.
ومن خلال شخصيات فكرية وترجمات غير منشورة لنصوص أساسية، يسلّط المؤلف الضوء على عصر إصلاحي جديد، بوصفه القدرة على التوفيق بين أفضل ما في التقليد الإسلامي وأفضل ما في الإنسانوية الغربية؛ وهو ردّ ملموس على التطرف الجهادي الذي يجري تحليل بنائه النظري وتلاعبه بالنصوص المقدسة، وسبيل لإعادة فتح الحوار بين الأديان والثقافات.
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