![If Not Secular, then What? Reflections on an Islamic Dialectic](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Heaven-and-Earth-600x450.jpeg)
The idea of the modern secular presupposes the existence of a holistic premodern world in which the amorphous phenomenon of religion penetrated all realms of life. But the existence of an Islamic distinction between the religious and non-religious domains suggests otherwise: not a latent secularity, but rather a difference of an altogether different kind. But if it is not equivalent to the “secular,” then what is it?