Religions of Peace: Formations of Principled Pacifism and Nonviolence in Modern Islam

该项目借鉴了现代伊斯兰传统中有原则的和平主义和非暴力的新的和现有的案例研究，以发展分析性的思想史和严格的理论类型学。这种新的类型学代表了对伊斯兰传统这些分支的研究的一个全新的出发点，一方面将传达原始的发现并有效地系统化现有的研究，另一方面为未来的研究提供跨学科的方法论基础。它汇集了伊斯兰研究和道德哲学的研究和研究人员，以便对现代伊斯兰教中有原则的和平主义和非暴力所扮演的各种角色进行急需的一般性批判。在其目标，范围和方法，这个项目是第一个，并作出有意义的贡献，既学术和公众对宗教的理解。这个跨学科的努力明确分析伊斯兰形式的原则和平主义和非暴力在各自的历史，神学和诠释学的背景。而不是争论一个单一的权威性和连贯的伊斯兰和平主义和非暴力的方法的存在规定，这项研究探讨了多种方法，同时将它们相互关联，并在更广泛的背景下，他们形成的一部分。这一方面包括参与具有伊斯兰特色的实践和诠释学，另一方面也包括对宗教间和文化间影响、对话和融合的认识。案例研究将从著名的历史人物（包括。Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi、Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri、Abdul Ghaffar Khan、Mahmoud Mohammad Taha）到当代有影响力的学者和活动家（包括Muhammad Abu-Nimer，Rabia Terri Harris，拉明Jahanbegloo，Chaiwat Satha-Anand，Mustapha Barghanet）.该项目的描述性方法认识到现代伊斯兰教中有原则的和平主义和非暴力主义在其异质性理解、经验、理由和规范性后果方面所扮演的多种角色。虽然彻底承认这种多样性本身就是对实地工作的一个有意义的贡献，但该项目走得更远。除了认识到伊斯兰和平主义在现代时期的广泛范围，这个项目开发了一个系统的类型学帐户的原则和平主义和非暴力家庭的现象在现代伊斯兰教。为了做到这一点，本研究借鉴了大量的和不断增长的文学的和平主义和非暴力的哲学。这些哲学辩论提供了一套严谨而丰富的概念，规范和方法工具，迄今为止，这些工具在伊斯兰和平与非暴力的写作中明显不足。虽然这种哲学文献在历史上与其他宗教传统（特别是基督教和南亚的佛法传统）有着深刻的接触，但迄今为止还没有与伊斯兰思想进行过实质性的对话。这个项目将有助于纠正这种历史性的不平衡。它既将丰富现有的文献和平主义和非暴力在伊斯兰研究中应用严格的框架开发的政治和道德哲学家一方面，并开辟了新的途径，哲学家探索伊斯兰思想的见解和知识遗产。因此，该项目建立了定性研究方法的能力，同时鼓励跨学科。通过其核心活动及其传播，该项目将通过支持新的研究人员并将他们与现有网络相结合，进一步发展研究界。

This project draws upon both fresh and existing case studies of principled pacifism and nonviolence in the modern Islamic tradition to develop an analytical intellectual history and a rigorous theoretical typology. This new typology represents a fundamentally new departure in the study of these branches of the Islamic tradition, and will both communicate original findings and fruitfully systematise existing research on the one hand, and on the other provide an inter-disciplinary methodological basis for future research. It brings together research and researchers in Islamic studies and moral philosophy so as to develop a much-needed general critical account of the varied roles played by principled pacifism and nonviolence in modern Islam. In its aims, scope, and methods, this project is the first of its kind and makes meaningful contributions both to scholarship and the public understanding of religion.This inter-disciplinary effort analyses explicitly Islamic forms of principled pacifism and nonviolence within their respective historical, theological, and hermeneutic contexts. Rather than arguing prescriptively for the existence of a single authoritative and coherent Islamic approach to pacifism and nonviolence, this study explores multiple approaches while relating them to one another and to the wider contexts of which they form a part. This includes both engagement with characteristically Islamic practices and hermeneutics on the one hand, and an awareness of inter-religious and inter-cultural influence, dialogue, and syncretism on the other. Case studies will range from notable historical figures (incl. Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Mahmoud Mohammad Taha) to influential contemporary scholars and activists (incl. Muhammad Abu-Nimer, Rabia Terri Harris, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Mustapha Barghouti).This project's descriptive approach recognises the multifarious roles played by principled pacifism and nonviolence in modern Islam in terms of their heterogeneous understandings, experiences, justification, and normative consequences. While thoroughgoing recognition of this multiplicity in itself represents a meaningful contribution to work in the field, this project goes further. Beyond recognising the broad gamut of Islamic pacifisms to be found in the modern period, this project develops a systematic typological account of principled pacifism and nonviolence as families of phenomena in modern Islam. To do so, this study draws upon the large and growing literature on the philosophy of pacifism and nonviolence. These philosophical debates provide a rigorous and richly elaborated set of conceptual, normative, and methodological tools which have to date been markedly under-represented in writing on peace and nonviolence in Islam. While this philosophical literature has historically engaged deeply with other religious traditions (particularly Christianity and the Dharmic traditions of South Asia), no comparably substantive dialogue with Islamic thought has to date been achieved. This project will help to redress this historical imbalance. It will both enrich the existing literatures on pacifism and nonviolence in Islamic studies by applying the rigorous frameworks developed by political and moral philosophers on the one hand, and open new avenues for philosophers to explore the insights and intellectual heritage of Islamic thought. As a result, this project builds capacity in qualitative research methodologies while encouraging inter-disciplinarily. Through its core activities and their dissemination, this project will furthermore develop the research community both by supporting new researchers and by integrating them with established networks.