{"id":849,"date":"2007-10-20T17:14:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2007\/10\/20\/scharia-und-der-sakulare-staat_849"},"modified":"2007-10-20T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T15:14:59","slug":"scharia-und-der-sakulare-staat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2007\/10\/20\/scharia-und-der-sakulare-staat_849","title":{"rendered":"Scharia und der s\u00e4kulare Staat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2007\/10\/lilla-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2007\/10\/lilla-photo.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Der New Yorker Philosoph <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Lilla\">Mark Lilla<\/a> hat das gro\u00dfe Thema der Zeit am Wickel &#8211; die R\u00fcckkehr der Politischen Theologie als\u00a0 d a s\u00a0 Problem unserer Gesellschaften, die doch auf der &#8222;Gro\u00dfen Trennung&#8220; (der religi\u00f6sen und der politischen Sph\u00e4re) beruhen. Aus einem neuen Aufsatz, der auf seinem j\u00fcngsten Buch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Stillborn-God-Religion-Politics-Modern\/sim\/1400043670\/2\">&#8222;The Stillborn God&#8220;<\/a> fu\u00dft:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The challenge in the Islamic world \u2013 and in those Western nations that have large Muslim populations \u2013 is much greater. Our working assumptions \u2013 that democracy is the only legitimate form of government, that the institutional separation of church and state is necessary, that religion is essentially a private matter, that one should be free to enter or leave a religious congregation at will \u2013 are simply not the assumptions of millions of Muslims across the globe. This is not because they do not want good government, or decent societies, or that they are utterly intolerant of other faiths. It is because the political theology of the <em>shari\u2019a<\/em> is still intact and commands the respect of all pious Muslims \u2013 just as the Torah is intact for ultra-orthodox Jews, many of whom reject the legitimacy of the Israeli democratic state. Torah and <em>shari\u2019a<\/em> are comprehensive laws, and those who believe in their comprehensiveness are obliged to look to them for guidance in everything, including politics. Given the statelessness of diaspora Jews for two millennia, the political-theological potential of the Torah lay dormant, except for occasional outbursts of messianic dreaming, as in the case of Shabbtai Zvi (1626-76). But the political theology of <em>shari\u2019a<\/em> is highly developed and has been put into practice in Muslim nations for over a thousand years. The Great Separation that eventually extinguished Christian political theology in the West has no counterpart in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p>What conclusions are we to draw from this fact? The most important is how little our American assumptions about religion and politics, deriving from the post-Christian Great Separation, will apply to a civilization with a strong, intact tradition of political theology. This is <em>not<\/em> to say that the Muslim tradition lacks political concepts akin to ours, such as justice, toleration, separation of religious and governmental power, accountability, and the like. How could it, given that all societies face the same basic set of political problems? But the bases of these concepts are wholly different: Muslim political theology derives them from the revelation of the <em>Qur\u2019an<\/em>, the traditions of the <em>hadith<\/em>, and the decisions of the community of legal scholars who look to these sources; modern political philosophy derives them from a reading of human nature alone. However much overlap there may be in terms of particular \u201cvalues\u201d and principles, we are deriving them from completely different sources. And that must be recognized if we are to understand each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Der ganze Aufsatz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2007\/10\/08\/mark-lilla\/coping-with-political-theology\/\">hier<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der New Yorker Philosoph Mark Lilla hat das gro\u00dfe Thema der Zeit am Wickel &#8211; die R\u00fcckkehr der Politischen Theologie als\u00a0 d a s\u00a0 Problem unserer Gesellschaften, die doch auf der &#8222;Gro\u00dfen Trennung&#8220; (der religi\u00f6sen und der politischen Sph\u00e4re) beruhen. Aus einem neuen Aufsatz, der auf seinem j\u00fcngsten Buch &#8222;The Stillborn God&#8220; fu\u00dft: The challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debatte","category-die-freunde-und-die-feinde-des-islams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scharia und der s\u00e4kulare Staat - J\u00f6rg Lau<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2007\/10\/20\/scharia-und-der-sakulare-staat_849\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scharia und der s\u00e4kulare Staat - J\u00f6rg Lau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Der New Yorker Philosoph Mark Lilla hat das gro\u00dfe Thema der Zeit am Wickel &#8211; die R\u00fcckkehr der Politischen Theologie als\u00a0 d a s\u00a0 Problem unserer Gesellschaften, die doch auf der &#8222;Gro\u00dfen Trennung&#8220; (der religi\u00f6sen und der politischen Sph\u00e4re) beruhen. 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