‘ALI ‘ABD AL-RAZIQ AS FIRST SECULARIST THINKER IN ISLAM

The article deals with one of the most outstanding representatives of Muslim modernism but still has not been thoroughly studied in our country, Egyptian theologian ‘Ali ‘Abdarraziq (1888–1966), the author of a famous book ‘Islam and the Foundations of Political Power’ (1925).

The second part of the article analyses ‘Abdarraziq’s depoliticization of religion, his critics of the basic problems of traditional political theology of Islam: the conception of the Prophet Muhammad as a king in addition to his prophetic mission, the sacred necessity of the caliphate, the world Islamic government, etc.

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