HIST 3830 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ibn Taymiyyah, Islamic Revival, Islamism
23 Mar 2017
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Perhaps "fundamentalism" is a bad term to apply to islam because it implies one group has innate knowledge and authority over the religion and can label others with differing beliefs how they choose. Huge amount of people moving from the country sides into the cities. Oil revenues all too often go from the people into the hands of the wealthy who support the regime thus leaving the needs of the general population unattended. Demographic explosion most of the arab world is around 25 years of age. Believed that the mongols were able to attack the muslims because they had strayed from the path of true islam. His ideas about islam are ideas that are later borrowed from by modern. They would argue for a slower progression towards an islamic state (gradual reform) vs. a more radical form of islam that requires revolution and the act of erasing the state and beginning again.
