The constellar and manifestative articulation of dimuqratiyya by Moroccan Islamiyyun. Review of Ahmed KHANANI (2021): All Politics are God's Politics. Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy, Rutgers University Press.

Abstract

Ahmed Khanani in All Politics are God's Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralisation of Democracy undertakes a linguistic analysis of the word dimuqratiyya in Dariya (Moroccan dialect). The author aims to dismantle Western ethnocentrism by disassociating democracy from the Platonic-universal connotation that is usually given to it in the West and to put it on an equal footing with dimuqratiyya, as he considers them both as words, with their different uses and meanings as a result of their respective semiotic contexts, and not as universal concepts. In this way, Democracy is the true Platonic-universal concept and democracy-dimuqratiyya are two manifestations that articulate their own tools or puzzle pieces to create their corresponding constellations that attempt to reach the abstraction towards Democracy.