Muslim Kingship and the Problem of Un-Conversion
The transcendence of divinity in Islam along with submission to God as the ultimate sovereign created a host of challenges for Muslim kings in their formal, legalistic interactions with non-monotheists, especially those communities who perceived the divine as immanent in nature and did not make a di...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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| Στο/Στη: |
Political theology
Έτος: 2022, Τόμος: 23, Τεύχος: 1/2, Σελίδες: 90-105 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Ασία (μοτίβο)
/ Ισλάμ (μοτίβο)
/ Βασιλιάς (μοτίβο)
/ Παράβαση
/ Πολιτική θεολογία
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | AD Κοινωνιολογία της θρησκείας, Πολιτική της θρησκείας BJ Ισλάμ KBL Εγγύς Ανατολή, Βόρεια Αφρική KBM Ασία |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
religious encounters
B Ισλάμ (μοτίβο) B Muslim Kingship B religous boundary-crossing B Conversion B rituals of sovereignty |
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| Σύνοψη: | The transcendence of divinity in Islam along with submission to God as the ultimate sovereign created a host of challenges for Muslim kings in their formal, legalistic interactions with non-monotheists, especially those communities who perceived the divine as immanent in nature and did not make a distinction between the veneration of kings and the worship of gods. While the preferred biblical mode for smoothing such engagements between the believer and non-believer was “conversion” of the latter, this approach was often neither possible nor desirable from the perspective of Muslim rulers in Asia. Thus, in many cases, Muslim kings practiced a transgressive form of boundary crossing and translation across religious divisions erected by biblical monotheism, what I call “un-conversion,” by deliberately bypassing or overriding the scriptural requirements of Islam. This essay examines the theoretical implications of such un-conversions for our understanding of sovereignty and political theology in Islam. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.2014626 |