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Anti-Islamism
The ideas and practices of the leaders, preachers, and movements of the Islamic revival movement known as Islamism (also referred to as Political Islam) have been criticized by non-Muslims and Muslims (often Islamic Modernism, Islamic modernists and Liberal Muslim movements, liberals). Among those authors, scholars and leaders who have criticized Islamism, or some element of it, are Maajid Nawaz, Reza Aslan, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawi, Khaled Abu al-Fadl,#AEFGT2005, Abou El Fadl, ''Great Theft'', 2005 Gilles Kepel,#GKJTPI2002, Kepel, ''Jihad'', 2002 Matthias Küntzel, Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Olivier Roy (professor), Olivier Roy,#ORFPI1994, Roy, ''Failure of Political Islam'', 1994 and Indonesian Islamic group Nahdlatul Ulama. Tenets of the Islamist movement that have come under criticism include: censorship in Islamic societies, restrictions on freedom of expression to prevent Apostasy in Islam, apostasy from and Blasphemy in Islam, insults to Islam;#GFFPI2003, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Revival
Islamic revival ( ar, تجديد'' '', lit., "regeneration, renewal"; also ', "Islamic awakening") refers to a revival of the Islamic religion. The revivers are known in Islam as ''mujaddids''. Within the Islamic tradition, ''tajdid'' has been an important religious concept, which has manifested itself throughout Islamic history in periodic calls for a renewed commitment to the fundamental principles of Islam and reconstruction of society in accordance with the Quran and the traditions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (hadith). The concept of ''tajdid'' has played a prominent role in contemporary Islamic revival. In academic literature, "Islamic revival" is an umbrella term encompassing "a wide variety of movements, some intolerant and exclusivist, some pluralistic; some favorable to science, some anti-scientific; some primarily devotional, and some primarily political; some democratic, some authoritarian; some pacific, some violent". After the late 1970s, when the Iranian Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |