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1They refused to see him. At 11:30 a.m., less than an hour after a confrontation with a
policewoman, and without telling his family, Bouazizi returned to the elegant double-storey
white building with arched azure shutters, poured fuel over his body, and set himself on fire.
2To observers these revolutions were the result of popular expressions demanding a modern
democratic state and citizenship conceived as an autonomous, self-constitutive, and tradition
free individual.
3Secular and liberal political parties within both countries complained that the religious political
parties exploited and manipulated the masses in the name of religion and gained their vote by
demonizing secular and liberal parties as the enemies of God.
4This is a good example of how the debates were reduced into mere binary by defining
contemporary conditions in the third world in term of abstract conditions of European historical
experience; where the third world is seen as embodying aspect of Europes past.
5For example, building on the influential academic achievements of Edward Said in the
Orientalist approach to Islam, Samira Haj is not satisfied with the scholars fidelity to a
traditional, secular, progressive, humanist approach with its commitment to a secular liberationist
project.
Tradition is more appropriately conceptualized as discourses extended through times, as a framework of
inquiry rather than a set of unchanging doctrines or culturally specific mandates. To put the same point in
another way, what appears to scholars as a commitment to fixed, essentialized tenets that must be preserved
at all costs is rather a framework of inquiry within which Muslims have attempted to amend and redirect
Islamic discourses to meet new challenges and conflicts as they materialized in different historical eras
What distinguishes this definition of tradition from the standard formulation of tradition is that traditions
refers not simply to the past or it repetition but rather to the pursuit of an ongoing coherence by makingreference to a set of texts, procedures, arguments, and practices. This body of prescribed beliefs and
understandings (intellectual, political, social, practical) frames the practices of Islamic reasoning. It is these
collective discourses, incorporating a variety of positions, roles, and tasks that form the corpus of Islamic
knowledge from which Muslim scholar (alim) argues for and refers to previous judgments of others, and
from which an unaltered parent teaches a child. It is from within this tradition of reasoning that claims are
made and evaluated and are either rejected or accepted as Islamic.
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