POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chosen People, Salafi Movement, Sharia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 227
• Professor: Philip Oxhorn

Document Summary

Militant organization: islamic liberation org, repentance, and. Definition: actual violent group behavior committed collectively against the state or other actors in the name of islam (s. Ibrahim: anti-civilian violence (civilians within and without of national boundaries) in the context of islamist insurgency (m. hafez, post 9/11) Isis, trying to establish a transnational caliphate: egypt: islamic liberation organization. Ideology, social profile, objectives: distinguishin moderates from militants. Radicalization as a process: ex; sayyid qutb before and after prison, internal organization. Understanding proximate causes: social movements, social and economic crisis, and weak states, egypt, algeria. Role of foreign policy: egypt, syria, iran. Ijtihad: legalized system to get involved in state, defensive (greater (individual) ijtihad comes after you achieve lesser ijtihad) Vanguard due to the general public"s jahiliyya. Critique of communism and capitalism, bring islam into political life: how to achieve the straight path, ibn taymiyya, banna, qutb, shukry mustafa. Muslims have acollective obligation: duty for a new social order.