ABSTRACT
This “thought experiment” chapter brings political theology and political philosophy into communication. It reads the conceptualized European Islam as a “reasonable comprehensive doctrine” that can contribute to the formation of an “overlapping consensus” in the “political” liberal democratic society, or the “well-ordered society,” as theorized by the American philosopher John Rawls (d. 2002). The chapter brings classical and modern Islamic defense of social justice into a conceptual exchange with political liberalism and its version of justice.
