Introduction

If Muslims are committed to shariah and liberals are committed to individual freedom, can these two worldviews really coexist? Our guest, the Islamic legal theorist Mohammad Fadel, argues that Muslim citizens can accept, live in, and even flourish in a liberal society. Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk have questions.

LINKS

• Mohammad Fadel on Islam and the liberal philosophy of John Rawls https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=977206
• Matthew Kaemingk’s article on the clash between public Islam and liberalism https://comment.org/the-headscarf-islams-gift-to-western-democracy/
• John Rawls, Political Liberalism 
• John Rawls, “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”