Joseph J. Kaminski is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of International Relations at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Current research interests include: Religion and Politics, Comparative Political Theory, and New Approaches to Islamic Public Reason. He is the author of The Contemporary Islamic Governed State: A Reconceptualization (2017).
1. Introduction 2. Setting the Table: Liberalism and its Enlightenment
Origins 3. 'Liberalisms': Exploring the Deep Familial Relationship Between
Comprehensive Liberalism and Political Liberalism 4. 'Islams': Rethinking
the Question 'What is Islam?' Rearticulated as a Coherent Discursive
Tradition Despite the Multiplicity of Local Traditions 5. Comparing the
Liberal and Islamic Approaches to Moral Epistemology and Human Rights 6.
Comparing the Liberal and Islamic Approaches to the Role of Religion in the
Public Sphere 7. Comparing the Liberal and Islamic Approaches to Law 8. A
Communitarian Alternative for Modern Islamic Societies? 9. Conclusion
