Political Equality and The Issue of Citizenship Rights in Contemporary Islamic Thought

Some intellectual challenges have arisen in the semantic system of Muslims since the
introduction of the semantic indications of modern discourse into the Muslim world.
"Nationalist Citizenship" and its resulting rights is one of the categories used as an indicator for
measuring political justice in contemporary societies. This indication has not yet been fully
adapted to the semantic system of Muslims intellectually. In some Islamic states, especially in
countries with more religious minorities, efforts have been made to address this challenge.
However, the question remains theoretically unanswered. Using a semiotic approach, the
present paper seeks to examine the conceptual dimensions of membership in the Muslim
political community and to pinpoint the intellectual efforts of some contemporary Muslim
thinkers to address this issue through a review of the emerging challenges in Muslim semantic
system as a result of the introduction of citizenship political rights. Some modernist Muslim
thinkers are trying to pave the way to overcome these challenges by moving over some
anthropological conceptual dualities. This article aims to examine the extent to which these
theoretical efforts have been adapted in the overall Islamic semantic system.

Keywords:

Political Equality , Citizenship , Citizenship Rights , Islamic World , Contemporary Islamic , Thought.