ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Bassam Tibi’s political justifications for what he calls “Euro-Islam” through “cultural modernity” reforms. Tibi proposes considering Islam a “cultural system” that adapts to context, instead of reading it essentially as an “ideology” or a political religion. Tibi’s reform agenda is composed of three major concepts: secularization, individual rights and pluralism, and rationalization of the conception of the world. Tibi ultimately defends the idea of Europeaning Islam through what he refers to as “Euro-Islamic ‘asabiyya” (i.e. ésprit de corps).
