Simon Róbert

The Social Anatomy of Islam


INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, when words and concepts have lost their original meanings,1 the precise definition and in-depth analysis of Islam as a socially integrated network is especially important, because only thus does it become possible to understand its incapacity for change, let alone thoroughgoing reform and modernisation, that have followed the success of its beginnings. It can even be seen so much as a first onslaught that it cannot be regarded as a religion in the strict sense of the word, as Christianity may be among the three Abrahamic religions because civil change marginalised it and made it into a societally insignificant movement in the private sphere.2 By contrast, the relationships of Judaism and Islam to their societal backgrounds is quite different, ranging from close integration to a unity that can't be sundered.3 So, if Islam isn't a religion, or isn't only a religion, as what may we regard it?

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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