RLG204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hajj, Iranian Revolution, Ijma
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All pillars have a function against of violence. Damage control policy (dcp: prophet creates 3 different dcps for violence, women, and jews. Philosophy of fasting is discipline, being able to control your desires: the level of crime in all muslim countries is reduced because of fasting. Methods to reduce violence can involve: psychological, political, social reform. Pre-modern reform: emerged in 18th century (also known as premodern revivalists, respond to, rather than react against, the challenge of western imperialism to sufism. Modern reform (after wwii: 3 ways: science (1940-60s), revolution(1960-80s), democracy (1980s now, science is explained at the end of the lecture, the other two will be explained next lecture. Differences between pre-modern and modern reformists are their solutions: first group believes only following the acts of muhammad and the sunnah while the second group believes in solutions for the past, present and future. 1 main idea is that muslims are better than non-muslims.
