PSC 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Abrahamic Religions, Salafi Movement, Islamic Salvation Front

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSC 392
• Professor: Bashiryeh

Document Summary

Some argue the quran cannot be the basis of government himself because the prophet had signed a social contract with the state of medina to transition from war to civil society/government. Historical development in 622, but during the succeeding centuries, there was a dispute among islamic scholars about what to select as the basis for islamic government contract (secular document of medina, or the religious book of the quran) The idea of social contract was to influence medieval writers and according to several interpreters of russo, there are several indications that he had departed from. Catholicism and converted to islam, regarded by the christian church as a heretic. After the revolution, the idea of social contract being regarded as originating in islamic history, there was a greater acceptance of islam in france until recent times. Variety of influences about how national traditions have affected acceptance of islam.