The Pioneering Formulation of the Concepts of Secularity and Secularism in the Arab-Islamicate World(s): Butrus al-Bustani’s <i>The Clarion of Syria</i>

This paper critically discusses the pioneering formulation of secularity and secularism in the Arab-Islamicate world(s) found in Butrus al-Bustani’s <i>The Clarion of Syria</i> (1860–1861). This discussion is conceptually based on the distinction between ‘secularity’ as an analytical con...

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Main Author: Housamedden Darwish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/3/286