| Abstrakt: |
The article presents a study which determines the complexity of liberalism among the West European and North American believers. It explores the methodological point that judges the Arab liberal thinking and its core values of rationalism, civic rights, rule of law, constitutionalism and ecumenism. It reveals that the centralized state and Islamic fundamentalism have swept through the Middle East during the twentieth century. It adds that the Islamists' have perceived that disputes can cast doubts on the validity of faith, while the liberals tend to uplift believers into moral perfection as the core of divine worship. |
