RELIGST 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Karbala, Tawakkul, Moral Police

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3CC3
• Professor: Liyakat Takim

Document Summary

One of the names of god (al-wahhab) Born in 1703/died in 1787 (before colonialism) Born in saudi arabia: mystic towards early period of his life. Internal decay of the muslim world: muslims had somehow deviated from the roots of islam. Islam was easy for him but had been corrupted and needed to be purified. Fundamentalism: people who have a literal understanding of the script (no extension) Going back to the fundament of a religion. Tend to believe that god had spoken to them and they are the true bearers of the faith (cid:1) (cid:1) Scholar hanbal did not believe in reasoning at all because it is faulty and one could be led astray: one must only follow the qur"an, human reasoning is faulty. Wahhab was reacting to the superstition (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Wahhab was a mystic but then later turned from that.