One often hears criticism of the "amalgam Islam-Islamism."
The word "Islam" has long been merely a synonym for Islam, a construction similar to other names of religions, "Christianity," "Hinduism" etc. ...
then some, in Egypt and elsewhere have said that "Islamism" is a doctrine distinct and deviancy "fundamentalist" or "politics" of "Islam."
Nominalism spontaneous human mind tends to make him believe that if a word exists, then there is a corresponding reality in the real world.
In this case, the injunction that is often made to distinguish between Islam and Islamism, is assumed the existence of two main doctrines, ideologies or theologies of two clearly identifiable and distinguishable, whose Islam is one and the other Islamism.
While those who employ this distinction does not provide bibliographies supposed to correspond to these "two" theories.
Professor Ali Merad simply presents things in place, apparently without meaning precisely.
In his book "The caliphate, an authority for Islam?" He speaks of "the essence of Islam" in a footnote stating "the term Islamism is understood here as meaning" religion of Mohammed "- Dictionary of French of Emile Littré.
Ali Merad in this book speaks of "the growing interest in the project Caliphate", reflecting its view "of the new intake of consciousness that manifests itself through the country islalma, along with the "pervasiveness of Islamic unity in the religious-political discourse" in these countries, and the "theme of revival and resurgence of Islamic (sahwa) as a leitmotif reveals a powerful groundswell of identity ".
Ali Merad is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and author of numerous books on the Islam.
Presentation Editor:
"The Islamic discourses exalt contemporary ethics of unity, both as a value inherent in Qur'anic message and as a necessity for the revival of the Muslim world. For this purpose, some argue for a return to the original model of the caliphate, when this concept was synonymous with greatness and influence in the fields of culture and civilization. For others, political realism incentive to favor a caliphate of purely spiritual, like the Roman Catholic papacy. In contrast, modernist theories aim to reestablish the Islamic unity on a model compatible with the primacy of nation states, particularly in the form of a World League Muslim. Such moral authority could play an important regulatory role for both the interpretation of the founding texts of Islam as to embody the Islamic legitimacy, both in terms of Muslim peoples and at the level of the international community. "
