RLG204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wahhabism, Iranian Revolution, Jahiliyyah
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Two important events: colonialism and the decline of islamic civilization, the populist form of sufism that dominated the muslim world. Sufism attempts to find salvation the purification it evident within your own soul used to not follow political and social order. Was believed that sufism was used in colonializing. Cause sufism does not take political order into account. Modern reform try to make reconciliation with science, revolution and democracy. There was an evident overpower of european colonialism. Emerged in 18th century (we call them pre-modern revivalists too) Respond to, rather than react against, the challenge of western imperialism and popular sufism. The islamic world: the mahdi in the sudan; the sanusi in libya, the wahhabi in saudi. Blamed sufis and shiites for the ills in islam. The wahhabi movement in arabia; muhammad ibn abd al-wahab. Once in power: destroyed sufi shirnes: the goal: moral reconstruction of society. The umma: internally weak and in decline.
