La politique morale ou bien gouverner à l'islamique

Abstract

The discourse of Islamic and Islamacist thinkers is more moral than political concerning the ideal Islamic order. Distinguishing forcefully the rights of God, intangible and irrevocable, from human rights, flexible and modifiable, they make the clear distinction between sacred and profane. Moving away from the khalifat ideal and adopting, through the notion of shura (consultation), the norms and mechanisms of representative democracy, they open themselves up to contemporary political thinking. But by mixing political moves (voting, responsibility for the general interest that falls on the believing citizen) with religious obligations, they keep a foot in the door of an ideal « theodemocracy», removed from the conflicts between opposing interests. They haven't yet managed the passage to politics as a means of regulation of human passions and oppositions among social groups. Recognition of the fact that the management of the population has not been accomplished in this way would destroy their plan to reconstruct an ideal community united by accepting the norms that are prescribed and negotiated by the shari'a. © Presses de Sciences Po.