REL 137g 1st Edition Lecture 24 Current LectureIslam and Modernity - continuationCleansing movements that sought to reform Islamic lawIbn Taymiya in the early classical period Confrontation with the WestRejection of Western cultural, economic, political, etc sensibilities that came from colonialism Reconcile with the West Argument that the West was able to conquer Islam because it is backwardNeed to prove Islam’s compatibility with the West, that it is not backward Muhammad Abudh and Rashid RidaTrained jurists working under a modernist regime They recognize a lot of corruption and decay has come into the Islamic traditionThey want to reform this tradition On the other hand, they recognize that some things the West has brought cannot be ignoredModern technology, medicine, etc Founders of the Salafi movement Salaf; pious ancestorsThey argue that if Muslims go back to the early pristine generations before Islam expanded they will find themselves much less encumbered and freer to indulge the modern world People could engage modernity just as these early people engaged with foreign cultures/societies This movement is picked up by more political movements in Saudi ArabiaThey become much for radical Almost a mixture of Salafi and Wahhabism Their primary target is not the West, it is the rulers of their own society Rulers of the Western nation-states that have been imposed on the Islamic world Against the idea that the way to advancement is by ridding government of religion They argued that Islam is simply a different religion with a different natureMuslim Brotherhood in 1928Hassan al-BannaAnother trend in post-modern eraThe last Muslim intellectual who were classically trained as sheiks to lead a movement From then on movements would be led by lay Muslims, not clerics Became the grand mufti of Egypt Thought the spirit of Muslim society was broken and it had to be healed and
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