بررسي تفسير باترورث درباره فلسفه سياسي اسلامي

Investigating Butterworth’s Interpretation of Islamic Political Philosophy

مقاله حاضر نخستين نوشتاري است كه به بررسي تفسير چارلز باترورث درباره فلسفه سياسي اسلامي مي‌پردازد. دغدغه اصلي باترورث فهم و تفسير فلسفه سياسي اسلامي بر اساس رهيافت تفسيري است، رهيافتي كه به اصالت فلسفه سياسي اسلامي اعتقاد دارد. با اين ‌حال، تفسير دوگانه باترورث از فلسفه سياسي اسلامي و به‌ويژه درك ناقص از فلسفه سياسي اسلامي معاصر باعث شده است كه وي نتواند خود را از رهيافت تاريخي، كه اعتقادي به اصالت فلسفه سياسي اسلامي ندارد، خارج سازد.

The present paper is the first essay which investigates Charles E. Butterworth’s interpretation of Islamic political philosophy. Butterworth’s main concern is to understand and interpret Islamic political philosophy based on interpretive approach, according to which Islamic political philosophy has originality. However, Butterworth’s dual interpretation of Islamic political philosophy and particularly incomplete understanding of contemporary Islamic political philosophy caused him fails to withdraw himself from the historical approach, according to which Islamic political philosophy has no originality.