The Social Anatomy of Islam

Tartalomjegyzék

• THE SOCIAL ANATOMY OF ISLAM
• Copyright Page
• Foreword to “The Social Anatomy of Islam”
• INTRODUCTION
• chevron_rightPart 1: The birth and shaping of a society
  • The fountain-head of political order. Ancient oriental antecedents.
  • The problem of sources
  • chevron_rightThe hermeneutics of the key concepts of political Islam
    • Caliph and caliphate
    • Dawla
    • Umma
    • Sharica
    • Ijmāc
    • Ijtihād
  • chevron_rightThe hermeneutics of Ibn Khaldūn's categories of the power-state
    • cUmrān
    • cAsabiyya, cumrān badawī, cumrān hadharī
  • Problems of origin
  • The problems of the integration of Islamic society
  • Problems of the stratification of society
  • Is there development in Islam? The forms of change (reform, rebellion, revolution)
• chevron_rightPart 2: Islamic Fundamentalism as an Inverted Utopia
  • chevron_rightSection 1
    • Subjective observations on the approach to the subject
    • The classic model of fundamentalism
    • The khārijite movement
    • Hanbalism and neohanbalism (Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Ibn Taymiyya)
    • The Assassins: the first organised form of suicidal terror in Islam
    • chevron_rightBetween classical Islam and the modern age: wahhābiyya, sanūsiyya, mahdiyya
      • The wahhābiyya movement
      • The sanūsiyya movement
      • The mahdiyya in Sudan
    • Departure from the classical model: sūfism and fundamentalism
    • The Muslim Brotherhood movement
    • chevron_rightBetween the old and new paradigms: from the local towards the demand for an universal Islamic umma
      • Organisational structure
  • chevron_rightSection Two
    • The period of globalised political Islamism
• Acknowledgment
• Bibliography
• Abbreviations

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Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 615 574 253 8

DOI: 10.1556/9786155742538

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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