Andrew March
Andrew F. March, Associate Professor of Political Science
DPhil in Politics (University of Oxford, 2006)
Research and Teaching Interests
Political theory; contemporary philosophical liberalism; Islamic political thought; Islamic law; religion and political theory; comparative political theory.
Book
2009. Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus (Oxford University Press).
Recipient of the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion (Constructive-Reflective Studies Category)
Representative Articles
2012. "Speech and the Sacred: Does the Defense of Free Speech Rest on a Mistake about Religion?" Political Theory (forthcoming).
2011. "Speaking about Muhammad, Speaking for Muslims," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 4, Summer 2011, pp. 806-821.
2011. "Theocrats Living under Secular Law: An External Engagement with Islamic Legal Theory," Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2011, pp. 28-51.
2011. "Law as a Vanishing Mediator in the Theological Ethics of Tariq Ramadan," European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 2011, pp. 177-201.
2011. "Is There a Right to Polygamy? Marriage, Equality and Subsidizing Families in Liberal Public Justification," Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2011, pp. 244-270.
2010. "Taking People as They Are: Islam as a ‘Realistic Utopia’ in the Political Theory of Sayyid Qutb," American Political Science Review, Vol. 104, No. 1, February 2010, pp. 189-207.
2010. "What Lies Beyond Same-Sex Marriage? Marriage, Reproductive Freedom and Future Persons in Liberal Public Justification," Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2010, pp. 39-58..
2009. "What is Comparative Political Theory?" The Review of Politics, Vol. 71, No. 4, Fall 2009, pp. 531-565.
2009. "Are Secularism and Neutrality Attractive to Religious Minorities? Islamic Discussions of Western Secularism in the ‘Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities’ (Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat) Discourse," Cardozo Law Review [Symposium Issue on Constitutionalism and Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival: the Challenge of Local & Global Fundamentalism] Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 2821-2854.
2009. "Sources of Moral Obligation to non-Muslims in the ‘Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities’ (Fiqh al-aqalliyyat) Discourse," Islamic Law and Society, 16:1 February 2009, pp. 34-94.
2007. "Reading Tariq Ramadan: Political Liberalism, Islam and 'Overlapping Consensus,'" Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter), pp. 399-413.
2007. "Islamic Foundations for a Social Contract in Non-Muslim Liberal Democracies," American Political Science Review, Vol. 101, No. 2 (May), pp. 235-252.
2006. "Liberal Citizenship and the Search for Overlapping Consensus: The Case of Muslim Minorities," Philosophy & Public Affairs, 34.4 (Fall), pp. 373-421.”
2003. "From Leninism to Karimovism: Hegemony, Ideology and Authoritarian Legitimation," Post-Soviet Affairs, 19.4, pp. 307-336.
2003. "State Ideology and the Legitimation of Authoritarianism: The Case of Post-Soviet Uzbekistan," Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June), pp. 209-232.
2002. “The Use and Abuse of History: ‘National Ideology’ as Transcendental Object in Islam Karimov’s ‘Ideology of National Independence’,” Central Asian Survey, Vol. 21, No. 4 (December), pp. 371-384.
Work in progress
I am presently at work on a number of projects on Islamic legal theories of the maqasid al-shari‘a (“the purposes of the law”), Islamic moral psychology and the problem of “taking people as they are” in normative ethics, and contemporary Islamic treatments of apostasy. I am also developing a book project on Islamic legal theory, Muslim minorities and conceptions of religious freedom.
Teaching (contact me for syllabi)
Islamic Law & Ethics (PLSC 329 (589); YLS 20484; RLST 197 (713))
Islamic Political Thought (PLSC 325)
Introduction to Political Theory: Analyzing Political Concepts (PLSC 315)
Contemporary Political Philosophy: Justification (PLSC 588b)
Comparative Political Theory: Islam and Liberalism (PLSC 321; EP&E 314)
Religion and Political Theory (PLSC 289)
Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall
Phone: 432-4178
Email: andrew.march@yale.edu
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