Andrew March
Andrew F. March
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). Winner: Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion (Constructive-Reflective Studies Category)
Representative Articles
2010. "Is There a Right to Polygamy? Marriage, Equality and Subsidizing Families in Liberal Public Justification," Journal of Moral Philosophy (forthcoming).
2010. "What Lies Beyond Same-Sex Marriage? Marriage, Reproductive Freedom and Future Persons in Liberal Public Justification," Journal of Applied Philosophy (forthcoming).
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 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)
Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall
Phone: 432-4178
Email: andrew.march@yale.edu
