Lena Salaymeh is Professor in the Section des Sciences Religieuses of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris Sciences et Lettres). Salaymeh is a scholar of law and history, with specializations in Islamic law, Jewish law, and critical theory. Her scholarship on contemporary “law and religion” brings together legal history and critiques of secularism. She received a Guggenheim fellowship and her first book, The Beginnings of Islamic law: late antique Islamicate legal traditions, received the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Textual Studies. The beginnings of Islamic law proposes the craft of legal recycling as a framework for conceptualizing Islamic law’s relationship to non-Islamic law. The book’s case studies (on prisoners of war, circumcision, and wife-initiated divorce) deconstruct conventional research, as well as offer critical and historicist alternatives. She was previously British Academy Global Professor in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (University of Oxford, 2020-2024). She was also the Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the Decolonial Comparative Law Project at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law (Hamburg) from 2019-2023. Salaymeh was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Davis Center, Department of History, at Princeton University. She received her JD from Harvard and her PhD in Legal and Islamic History from UC Berkeley. Address: https://lem-umr8584.cnrs.fr/?Lena-Salaymeh&lang=fr
Available in paperback. Download the Introduction here, 2016
2017 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Textual Studies
... more 2017 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Textual Studies
The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. Salaymeh challenges the embedded assumptions in conventional Islamic legal historiography by developing a critical approach to the study of both Islamic and Jewish legal history. Through case studies of the treatment of war prisoners, circumcision, and wife-initiated divorce, she examines how Muslim jurists incorporated and transformed 'Near Eastern' legal traditions. She also demonstrates how socio-political and historical situations shaped the everyday practice of law, legal education, and the organization of the legal profession in the late antique and medieval eras. Aimed at scholars and students interested in Islamic history, Islamic law, and the relationship between Jewish and Islamic legal traditions, this book's interdisciplinary approach provides accessible explanations and translations of complex materials and ideas.
Revue de droit international et de droit comparé, 2023
Droit comparé decolonial: un début conceptuel, Revue de droit international et de droit comparé 2... more Droit comparé decolonial: un début conceptuel, Revue de droit international et de droit comparé 2023:3-4, pp. 357-384.
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Zentrum für Islamische Theologie
2023
Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses, 2023
Lena Salaymeh, « Le droit divin et les lois divines II », Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes... more Lena Salaymeh, « Le droit divin et les lois divines II », Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses [En ligne], 130 | 2023, mis en ligne le 31 juillet 2023. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/asr/4622 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/asr.4622
This chapter argues that some scholars portray Ignac Goldziher as a "good Orientalist." Contestin... more This chapter argues that some scholars portray Ignac Goldziher as a "good Orientalist." Contesting the assumptions behind the distinction between "good" and "bad" orientalists, the chapter shows that Goldziher's scholarly methods relied on Orientalist bias. Such bias is the result of blindly repeating and imposing Eurocentric methods, including the blurring of Jewish and Islamic traditions into a single "Semitic" or "religious" tradition.¹
Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ), 2022
This article introduces the intellectual motivations behind the establishment of
the Decolonial C... more This article introduces the intellectual motivations behind the establishment of the Decolonial Comparative Law research project. Beginning with an overview of the discipline of comparative law, we identify several methodological impasses that have not been resolved by previous critical approaches. We then introduce decolonial theory, generally, and decolonial legal studies, specifically, and argue for a decolonial approach to comparative law. We explain that decoloniality’s emphasis on delinking from coloniality and on recognizing pluriversality can improve on some problematic and embedded assumptions in mainstream comparative law. We also provide an outline of a conceptual beginning for decolonial approaches to comparative law.
Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses, 2022
Lena Salaymeh, « Le droit divin et les lois divines I », Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes ... more Lena Salaymeh, « Le droit divin et les lois divines I », Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses [En ligne], 129 | 2022, mis en ligne le 10 juin 2022, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/asr/4190 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/asr.4190
This Article investigates how contemporary laws of war rationalize civilian deaths. I concentrate... more This Article investigates how contemporary laws of war rationalize civilian deaths. I concentrate on two specific legal constructions in warfare: the definition of civilian/combatant and the principle of distinction. (The categories of civilian and combatant should be understood as dialogically constitutive and not entirely distinct. In addition, the category of "civilian" is a modern one and premodern legal sources often do not use one term to refer to noncombatants.) I focus on two significant parties in contemporary warfare: al-Qāʿidah (aka Al-Qaeda) and the U.S. military. Al-Qāʿidah diverges from orthodox Islamic law on these two legal issues, while remaining within the Islamic legal tradition. To scrutinize the nature of this divergence, I compare al-Qāʿidah's legal reasoning to the legal reasoning of the U.S. military. I demonstrate that the U.S. military diverges from orthodox international law in ways that parallel how al-Qāʿidah diverges from orthodox Islamic law. Specifically, both the U.S. military and al-Qāʿidah elide orthodox categories of civilians and expand the category of combatant, primarily by rendering civilians as probable combatants. Based on this comparative analysis, I argue that the legal reasoning of al-Qāʿidah (and other militant Islamist groups) is as secular as it is Islamic; I call this fusion secularislamized law.
This article demonstrates that the legal reasoning dominant in modern states secularises traditio... more This article demonstrates that the legal reasoning dominant in modern states secularises traditions by converting them into 'religions'. Using a case study on Germany's recent regulation of male circumcision, we illustrate that religions have (at least) three dimensions: religiosity (private belief, individual right and autonomous choice); religious law (a divinely ordained legal code); and religious groups (public threat). When states restrict traditions within these three dimensions, they construct 'religions' within a secularisation triangle. Our theoretical model of a secularisation triangle illuminates that, in many Western states, there is a three-way relationship between a post-Christian state and both its Jewish and Muslim minorities. Our two theoretical proposals-the secularisation triangle and the trilateral relationship-contribute to a re-examination of religious freedom from the perspective of minority traditions and minority communities.
Lena Salaymeh, « Traduction décoloniale : contre la colonialité dans la conversion séculière du d... more Lena Salaymeh, « Traduction décoloniale : contre la colonialité dans la conversion séculière du droit islamique en “charia” », Clio@Themis [Online], 20 | 2021
Contemporary Islamic legal studies--both inside and outside the Muslim world--commonly relies upo... more Contemporary Islamic legal studies--both inside and outside the Muslim world--commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. In this article, I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic tradition. A secular translation converts the Islamic tradition into "religion" (the non-secular) and Islamic law into "sharia"--a term intended to represent the English mispronunciation of the Arabic word شريعة (sharīʿah) I explore the differences between historical Islamic terms and secular terms in order to demonstrate that coloniality generates religion and religious law; in turn, these two notions convert شريعة (sharīʿah) into "sharia" in both Arabic and non-Arabic languages. Consequently, the notion of "sharia" is part of a colonial system of meaning.
Explains how secularism contributes to judeophobia and islamophobia.
“Secularism.” with Shai La... more Explains how secularism contributes to judeophobia and islamophobia.
“Secularism.” with Shai Lavi in Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism, edited by Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury and Kalman Weiser. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism, 257-71: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Salaymeh, Lena. "Women and Islamic Law: Decolonizing Colonialist Feminism." Chap. 20 In Routledge... more Salaymeh, Lena. "Women and Islamic Law: Decolonizing Colonialist Feminism." Chap. 20 In Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, edited by Justine Howe, 310-17: Routledge, 2020.
Secularism is a Eurocentric ideology because it relies on modern European ideas and practices as ... more Secularism is a Eurocentric ideology because it relies on modern European ideas and practices as universalist standards.
Hawwa, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 2019
This article presents three arguments about defects in imperialist feminism. First, I show that i... more This article presents three arguments about defects in imperialist feminism. First, I show that imperialist feminists engage in decontextualized comparisons: they consistently compare Western women to the Muslimwoman, without comparing Muslim men and women or comparing non-Muslim men and women. These inconsistent comparisons are the source of significant misrepresentations of Muslim women. Second, I propose that imperialist feminists view Muslim women through the heteronorma-tive male gaze. That is, when imperialist feminists assess Muslim women's practices, they implement the normative assumptions of heterosexual males in the West. Third, I argue that imperialist feminists incorrectly presume that Western women enjoy full autonomy or fail to recognize that women everywhere do not enjoy full autonomy. I present medieval Islamic legal ideas about a wife's right to sexual fulfillment as evidence that the liberal myth of autonomy is not translatable to orthodox Islamic jurisprudence.
The Territories of Philosophy in Modern Historiography, 2019
Salaymeh, Lena. "Goldziher dans le rôle du bon orientaliste. Les méthodes de l'impérialisme intel... more Salaymeh, Lena. "Goldziher dans le rôle du bon orientaliste. Les méthodes de l'impérialisme intellectuel." In The Territories of Philosophy in Modern Historiography, edited by Catherine König-Pralong, Mario Meliadò and Zornitsa Radeva, 89-103. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2019.
Please note this article is published with Brepols Publishers as a Gold Open Access article under a Creative Commons CC 4.0: BY-NC license.
Available in paperback. Download the Introduction here, 2016
2017 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Textual Studies
... more 2017 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Textual Studies
The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. Salaymeh challenges the embedded assumptions in conventional Islamic legal historiography by developing a critical approach to the study of both Islamic and Jewish legal history. Through case studies of the treatment of war prisoners, circumcision, and wife-initiated divorce, she examines how Muslim jurists incorporated and transformed 'Near Eastern' legal traditions. She also demonstrates how socio-political and historical situations shaped the everyday practice of law, legal education, and the organization of the legal profession in the late antique and medieval eras. Aimed at scholars and students interested in Islamic history, Islamic law, and the relationship between Jewish and Islamic legal traditions, this book's interdisciplinary approach provides accessible explanations and translations of complex materials and ideas.
Revue de droit international et de droit comparé, 2023
Droit comparé decolonial: un début conceptuel, Revue de droit international et de droit comparé 2... more Droit comparé decolonial: un début conceptuel, Revue de droit international et de droit comparé 2023:3-4, pp. 357-384.
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تحرير مهند خورشيد وياسين اليحياوي
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Zentrum für Islamische Theologie
2023
Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses, 2023
Lena Salaymeh, « Le droit divin et les lois divines II », Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes... more Lena Salaymeh, « Le droit divin et les lois divines II », Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses [En ligne], 130 | 2023, mis en ligne le 31 juillet 2023. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/asr/4622 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/asr.4622
This chapter argues that some scholars portray Ignac Goldziher as a "good Orientalist." Contestin... more This chapter argues that some scholars portray Ignac Goldziher as a "good Orientalist." Contesting the assumptions behind the distinction between "good" and "bad" orientalists, the chapter shows that Goldziher's scholarly methods relied on Orientalist bias. Such bias is the result of blindly repeating and imposing Eurocentric methods, including the blurring of Jewish and Islamic traditions into a single "Semitic" or "religious" tradition.¹
Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ), 2022
This article introduces the intellectual motivations behind the establishment of
the Decolonial C... more This article introduces the intellectual motivations behind the establishment of the Decolonial Comparative Law research project. Beginning with an overview of the discipline of comparative law, we identify several methodological impasses that have not been resolved by previous critical approaches. We then introduce decolonial theory, generally, and decolonial legal studies, specifically, and argue for a decolonial approach to comparative law. We explain that decoloniality’s emphasis on delinking from coloniality and on recognizing pluriversality can improve on some problematic and embedded assumptions in mainstream comparative law. We also provide an outline of a conceptual beginning for decolonial approaches to comparative law.
Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses, 2022
Lena Salaymeh, « Le droit divin et les lois divines I », Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes ... more Lena Salaymeh, « Le droit divin et les lois divines I », Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses [En ligne], 129 | 2022, mis en ligne le 10 juin 2022, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/asr/4190 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/asr.4190
This Article investigates how contemporary laws of war rationalize civilian deaths. I concentrate... more This Article investigates how contemporary laws of war rationalize civilian deaths. I concentrate on two specific legal constructions in warfare: the definition of civilian/combatant and the principle of distinction. (The categories of civilian and combatant should be understood as dialogically constitutive and not entirely distinct. In addition, the category of "civilian" is a modern one and premodern legal sources often do not use one term to refer to noncombatants.) I focus on two significant parties in contemporary warfare: al-Qāʿidah (aka Al-Qaeda) and the U.S. military. Al-Qāʿidah diverges from orthodox Islamic law on these two legal issues, while remaining within the Islamic legal tradition. To scrutinize the nature of this divergence, I compare al-Qāʿidah's legal reasoning to the legal reasoning of the U.S. military. I demonstrate that the U.S. military diverges from orthodox international law in ways that parallel how al-Qāʿidah diverges from orthodox Islamic law. Specifically, both the U.S. military and al-Qāʿidah elide orthodox categories of civilians and expand the category of combatant, primarily by rendering civilians as probable combatants. Based on this comparative analysis, I argue that the legal reasoning of al-Qāʿidah (and other militant Islamist groups) is as secular as it is Islamic; I call this fusion secularislamized law.
This article demonstrates that the legal reasoning dominant in modern states secularises traditio... more This article demonstrates that the legal reasoning dominant in modern states secularises traditions by converting them into 'religions'. Using a case study on Germany's recent regulation of male circumcision, we illustrate that religions have (at least) three dimensions: religiosity (private belief, individual right and autonomous choice); religious law (a divinely ordained legal code); and religious groups (public threat). When states restrict traditions within these three dimensions, they construct 'religions' within a secularisation triangle. Our theoretical model of a secularisation triangle illuminates that, in many Western states, there is a three-way relationship between a post-Christian state and both its Jewish and Muslim minorities. Our two theoretical proposals-the secularisation triangle and the trilateral relationship-contribute to a re-examination of religious freedom from the perspective of minority traditions and minority communities.
Lena Salaymeh, « Traduction décoloniale : contre la colonialité dans la conversion séculière du d... more Lena Salaymeh, « Traduction décoloniale : contre la colonialité dans la conversion séculière du droit islamique en “charia” », Clio@Themis [Online], 20 | 2021
Contemporary Islamic legal studies--both inside and outside the Muslim world--commonly relies upo... more Contemporary Islamic legal studies--both inside and outside the Muslim world--commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. In this article, I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic tradition. A secular translation converts the Islamic tradition into "religion" (the non-secular) and Islamic law into "sharia"--a term intended to represent the English mispronunciation of the Arabic word شريعة (sharīʿah) I explore the differences between historical Islamic terms and secular terms in order to demonstrate that coloniality generates religion and religious law; in turn, these two notions convert شريعة (sharīʿah) into "sharia" in both Arabic and non-Arabic languages. Consequently, the notion of "sharia" is part of a colonial system of meaning.
Explains how secularism contributes to judeophobia and islamophobia.
“Secularism.” with Shai La... more Explains how secularism contributes to judeophobia and islamophobia.
“Secularism.” with Shai Lavi in Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism, edited by Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury and Kalman Weiser. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism, 257-71: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Salaymeh, Lena. "Women and Islamic Law: Decolonizing Colonialist Feminism." Chap. 20 In Routledge... more Salaymeh, Lena. "Women and Islamic Law: Decolonizing Colonialist Feminism." Chap. 20 In Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, edited by Justine Howe, 310-17: Routledge, 2020.
Secularism is a Eurocentric ideology because it relies on modern European ideas and practices as ... more Secularism is a Eurocentric ideology because it relies on modern European ideas and practices as universalist standards.
Hawwa, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 2019
This article presents three arguments about defects in imperialist feminism. First, I show that i... more This article presents three arguments about defects in imperialist feminism. First, I show that imperialist feminists engage in decontextualized comparisons: they consistently compare Western women to the Muslimwoman, without comparing Muslim men and women or comparing non-Muslim men and women. These inconsistent comparisons are the source of significant misrepresentations of Muslim women. Second, I propose that imperialist feminists view Muslim women through the heteronorma-tive male gaze. That is, when imperialist feminists assess Muslim women's practices, they implement the normative assumptions of heterosexual males in the West. Third, I argue that imperialist feminists incorrectly presume that Western women enjoy full autonomy or fail to recognize that women everywhere do not enjoy full autonomy. I present medieval Islamic legal ideas about a wife's right to sexual fulfillment as evidence that the liberal myth of autonomy is not translatable to orthodox Islamic jurisprudence.
The Territories of Philosophy in Modern Historiography, 2019
Salaymeh, Lena. "Goldziher dans le rôle du bon orientaliste. Les méthodes de l'impérialisme intel... more Salaymeh, Lena. "Goldziher dans le rôle du bon orientaliste. Les méthodes de l'impérialisme intellectuel." In The Territories of Philosophy in Modern Historiography, edited by Catherine König-Pralong, Mario Meliadò and Zornitsa Radeva, 89-103. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2019.
Please note this article is published with Brepols Publishers as a Gold Open Access article under a Creative Commons CC 4.0: BY-NC license.
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Salaymeh, Lena, Yosef Schwartz, and Galili Shahar, eds. Der Orient: Imaginationen in deutscher Sp... more Salaymeh, Lena, Yosef Schwartz, and Galili Shahar, eds. Der Orient: Imaginationen in deutscher Sprache, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 45. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag; Minerva Institut für deutsche Geschichte Universität Tel Aviv, 2017.
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The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. Salaymeh challenges the embedded assumptions in conventional Islamic legal historiography by developing a critical approach to the study of both Islamic and Jewish legal history. Through case studies of the treatment of war prisoners, circumcision, and wife-initiated divorce, she examines how Muslim jurists incorporated and transformed 'Near Eastern' legal traditions. She also demonstrates how socio-political and historical situations shaped the everyday practice of law, legal education, and the organization of the legal profession in the late antique and medieval eras. Aimed at scholars and students interested in Islamic history, Islamic law, and the relationship between Jewish and Islamic legal traditions, this book's interdisciplinary approach provides accessible explanations and translations of complex materials and ideas.
تحويل الفقه الإسلاميّ إلى ****** وأخلاق
تحرير مهند خورشيد وياسين اليحياوي
491-521
Zentrum für Islamische Theologie
2023
the Decolonial Comparative Law research project. Beginning with an overview of the discipline of comparative law, we identify several methodological impasses that have not been resolved by previous critical approaches. We then introduce decolonial theory, generally, and decolonial legal studies, specifically, and argue for a decolonial approach to comparative law. We explain that decoloniality’s emphasis on delinking from coloniality and on recognizing pluriversality can improve on some problematic and embedded assumptions in mainstream comparative law. We also provide an outline of a conceptual beginning for decolonial approaches to comparative law.
https://publications-prairial.fr/cliothemis/index.php?id=383
I explore the differences between historical Islamic terms and secular terms in order to demonstrate that coloniality generates religion and religious law; in turn, these two notions convert شريعة (sharīʿah)
into "sharia" in both Arabic and non-Arabic languages. Consequently, the notion of "sharia" is part of a colonial system of meaning.
“Secularism.” with Shai Lavi in Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism, edited by Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury and Kalman Weiser. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism, 257-71: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/forschung/forschungsgruppen/was-ist-westlich-am-westen/west-windows/26-the-eurocentrism-of-secularism
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The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. Salaymeh challenges the embedded assumptions in conventional Islamic legal historiography by developing a critical approach to the study of both Islamic and Jewish legal history. Through case studies of the treatment of war prisoners, circumcision, and wife-initiated divorce, she examines how Muslim jurists incorporated and transformed 'Near Eastern' legal traditions. She also demonstrates how socio-political and historical situations shaped the everyday practice of law, legal education, and the organization of the legal profession in the late antique and medieval eras. Aimed at scholars and students interested in Islamic history, Islamic law, and the relationship between Jewish and Islamic legal traditions, this book's interdisciplinary approach provides accessible explanations and translations of complex materials and ideas.
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تحرير مهند خورشيد وياسين اليحياوي
491-521
Zentrum für Islamische Theologie
2023
the Decolonial Comparative Law research project. Beginning with an overview of the discipline of comparative law, we identify several methodological impasses that have not been resolved by previous critical approaches. We then introduce decolonial theory, generally, and decolonial legal studies, specifically, and argue for a decolonial approach to comparative law. We explain that decoloniality’s emphasis on delinking from coloniality and on recognizing pluriversality can improve on some problematic and embedded assumptions in mainstream comparative law. We also provide an outline of a conceptual beginning for decolonial approaches to comparative law.
https://publications-prairial.fr/cliothemis/index.php?id=383
I explore the differences between historical Islamic terms and secular terms in order to demonstrate that coloniality generates religion and religious law; in turn, these two notions convert شريعة (sharīʿah)
into "sharia" in both Arabic and non-Arabic languages. Consequently, the notion of "sharia" is part of a colonial system of meaning.
“Secularism.” with Shai Lavi in Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism, edited by Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury and Kalman Weiser. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism, 257-71: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/forschung/forschungsgruppen/was-ist-westlich-am-westen/west-windows/26-the-eurocentrism-of-secularism
Please note this article is published with Brepols Publishers as a Gold Open Access article under a Creative Commons CC 4.0: BY-NC license.
The article is also freely available on the website of Brepols Publishers: https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.ADARG-EB.5.117384& under this same license.
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