Simon Róbert

The Social Anatomy of Islam


The Muslim Brotherhood movement1

The community of Muslim Brotherhood (Jamciyya al-Ikhwān al-muszlimīn) is on the one hand one of the most recent representatives of the "classical model" of Islamic renewal, and on the other hand the precursor of "political Islam", which (radically rejecting the influences of the Enlightenment and Western modernisation which profoundly determine economy, culture, lifestyle and political institutionalisation) with its many-sided organisation of society has to this day decisively drawn together the demands of a religious revival that reaches back for the beginnings. To this end, it has emerged from the beginning not as a religious fellowship but as an organisation embracing the whole of social life, covering economy, education, politics, even bodily movement. The elevation of the individual has been as much a part of its programme as has the radical revision of society.2

The Social Anatomy of Islam

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó – Felsőbbfokú Tanulmányok Intézete

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 615 574 253 8

This work analyses some essential features of the classical as well modern Islamic society. Islam cannot be regarded as a religion in the strict sense of the word, because civil change marginalized it and made it into societally insignificant movement in the private sphere. Some consider it a kind of a politically organized formation, but politically unified Islamic society disintegrated from the second half of the ninth century, independent units came into being reproducing the original model. Others are of the opinion that Islam is an ideology. This, however, would mean that during one and a half millennium the Muslims gave wrong answers to the different challenges. Some consider Islam as a culture, but this concept is a category of civil society subjected to permanent change. Therefore, we shall interpret Islam as society-integrating network which organized its own society, the umma on the principle of repristination or retraditionalisation.The main topics treated in the first part of our work are: the problem of genesis; the hermeneutics of the main concepts of Political Islam counterpointed by the categories of Ibn Khaldún’s power-state; integration and stratification of society; forms of changes (reform, revolt, revolution). The second part is dealing with the problems of modern Islam, taking into account revivalist movements from the Khárijites to the Islamic State.

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