REI 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judicial District, Qaid, Liberal Democracy
2 Apr 2015
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October 23, 2014: the muslim diaspora in great britain. Global events can precipitate radical diasporic estrangement, leading to self-estrangement. Such estrangement is fed by moral panics, expressed in the speeches of politicians, in newspaper columns and global news reports. Millennial discourses may exist and be widely pervasive without organisation or effective mobilisation. The millennial vision in contemporary islam, as articulated by a wide range of movements, is of return" to the pristine islam of the time of the prophet"s reign. This is conceived of as a golden age of unity (tauhid), harmony, lawfulness, economic prosperity and peace. Utopia is a hybrid plant, born of the crossing of a paradisiacal, other-worldly belief of judeo-christian religion with the hellenic myth of an ideal city on earth. What such utopias share with other utopian visions, including the marxist-socialist one, is their totality, their absolute perfection. Another widely shared feature of millennial movement is their stress on the opposition between pure and impure.
