REL 137g 1st Edition Lecture 26 Current Lecture Meaning behind Islamic Intricate dichotomy with Western Used to insulate Muslims from too much modernity and Western influence 1941 Jamaati i Islami in Pakistan Operated among elites college students and intellectuals Essentially had the exact same goals as the Muslim Brotherhood Ayat Allah Khomeini First cleric in the modern world to lead a major movement that led to a revolution Highest rank of 12 er Shiite scholar 1979 revolution in Iran Gives birth to the Islamic Republic in Islam Enormously important development Inspired the Sunni world Broke the spell of Western dominance Internationalization in 1981 With extremist movements Growing radicalization and internationalization since the 1950s that culminates on 9 11 To impose an Islamic mode of operations on Western and Imperialist institutions Text and context Qur an Sunna and the texts of the classical schools handed down The context in modernity Certain things that were once allowed according to ancient texts are no longer correct in the context of modernity Split between those who favor one over the other Islam in America 1965 America gets rid of the National Origins Act of 1924 How the US ensured the majority of immigrants were from NW Europe through quotas The Cold War the US didn t want intellectuals moving to the Soviet Union Civil Rights Movement Opened floodgates of immigration from Muslim world Mostly the wealthy educated and intellectuals 3 Institutions Muslim Students Associate in the 1960s Islamic Society of North America in the 1980s The largest and most influential Muslim organization in the US Both Arabs and Indo Pakistanis Islamic Circle of North America in the 1980s Indian Pakistani Less organized and influential Communal conversion to Islam Black Americans To such a degree that it is normal to be a Muslim White converts on the other hand are considered cultural racial apostates A 20th century phenomenon that goes back to the 1930s Birth of the nation of Islam Led by Elijah Muhammad WD Muhammad takes over after Transition to Sunni Islam
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