PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 93: Dutch East India Company, Sufism, Wahhabism
8 May 2016
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Economic impact- voyages of discovery, new trade routes and networks. Fundamentalism: purify islamic practice, return original practices. Modernism: reinterpret islam so it is compatible with modern life. Taking in western traditions and seeing how they"re reflected in. Learn european ways as key to success muslim ideals. 1529- gave up and lifted the siege because they wanted to get home before the snow. Realized that they were not as good as they used to be when they couldn"t take. Ottoman responses to the new balance of power. A movement to purify islam of all its theological and mythical accretions, to return to the. Original pure form of the faith based on the qur"an and hadith alone. An insistence on applying the shari"a (islamic law) Against sufism (islamic mysticism) and popular religion (such as verification of saints, pilgrimage to saints" tombs) Established the kingdom of saudi arabia in 1934. India, egypt, persian gulf, aden, jordan, palestine, iraq.
