Radicalization and Takfirism

• The emergence of political Islam or Islamism in the early 20th century as a radical political and religious tradition has been explained on the basis of various explanatory models. One explanation is that this radical political ideology is a response to the great upheavals that hit Muslim countries after the First World War that led, among other things, to the demise of the Ottoman Empire. It was also during this time that the former colonial powers of England and France redesigned the Middle East map in accordance with the famous Sykes-Picot Agreement. It was a time when Muslim thinkers were looking for a solution to the structural crises that had hit Muslim countries. Against the proposals for Arab nationalism, Arab socialism or other secular ideas, a group of Muslim thinkers chose a return to Islam as the only solution to the problems that had affected Muslim countries. That is when, among other things, the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood highlighted the view: Islam is our way and the Qur’an is our Constitution. Consequently, the emergence of political Islam, from this perspective, is a reaction to relations during this period rather than an expression of an immutable phenomenon rooted in the Arab peninsula of the 7th century.The question is whether theological and legal interpretative traditions of Islamic sources can indorse political radicalism.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Religious Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Political Islam

Reformism

Salafism

Radicalization

Takfirism

Utopianism

Purists

Politicos

Jihadis

Human nature (Fiṭra)

Systematisk teologi

Systematic Theology

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