Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
1.1 The concept of justice in Arabo-Islamic and Western philosophy 12
1.2 The significance of postcolonial theory for the Maghrebian context 24
Introduction 29
2.1 The concept of secular humanism: The necessity of emancipating Islamic thought from religious and nationalist conceptions 45
2.2 The concept of justice in the modern era: The entanglement of descriptive and normative claims of justice theories 56
2.3 The rereading of ninth-century early Arabo-Islamic thought: The theorization of notions of justice through Mernissi's transcultural and humanistic approaches 77
2.4 Transdisciplinary approaches to establish gender justice within the framework of Islamic feminism 96
2.5 The relevance of Mernissi's feminist thought for a transcultural approach to feminism 138
2.6 Conclusion on the thought of Fatima Mernissi 151
Introduction 155
3.1 Mohammed Arkoun's rereading of the Islamic thought of Miskawayh (d. 1030): A multifaceted concept of justice 165
3.2 The method of applied Islamology: A transcultural and transdisciplinary key for the renewal of Islamic studies 189
3.3 Toward an emancipation from hegemonic constructions: The critique of orthodoxy, Arab nationalism, and Euro-modernism 222
3.4 The concept of emerging reason: A key for a democratic and cosmopolitan project 241
3.5 Conclusion on the thought of Mohammed Arkoun 254
Introduction 261
4.1 The common approach to theorizing justice by Fatima Mernissi and Mohammed Arkoun 262
4.2 On the relevance of a cosmopolitan theory of justice based on a transcultural approach 266
Bibliography 275