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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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Political theology
Année: 2022, Volume: 23, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 90-105 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Asie
/ Islam
/ Roi
/ Infraction
/ Théologie politique
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AD Sociologie des religions BJ Islam KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord KBM Asie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
religious encounters
B Islam B Muslim Kingship B religous boundary-crossing B Conversion B rituals of sovereignty |
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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.2014626 |