Concept
Islamic revival
Overview
movements to revive the faith in Islamic history
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These occur particularly within Islamitic culture, whenever the difference between chief and secondary wives is either annulled or is subordinated to the will of the husband. Such deviations from the general trend of development are usually attributed to the influence of personalities. It is not impossible, however, that they are due in this case to the fact that Islamism spread to peoples of totemic culture. But in…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Islamic revival; the term itself is not named.
But even when we are deprived of the advantage of their society, we can comprehend the possibility of this state (revelation by means of ecstasy) by a chain of manifest proofs. We have explained this in the treatise entitled _Marvels of the Heart_, which forms part of our work, _The Revival of the Religious Sciences_. The certitude derived from proofs is called “knowledge”; passing into the state we describe is…
Ghazzali, The Confessions of Al Ghazzali
States what Islamic revival is.
Since there was little in the apparent condition of the public mind, indicative of any tendency in this direction, my view of the immediate prospects of human improvement was not sanguine. More recently a spirit of free speculation has sprung up, giving a more encouraging prospect of the gradual mental emancipation of England; and concurring with the renewal under better auspices, of the movement for political…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
Close in meaning to Islamic revival; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Islamic revival
Related ideas
- Abul A'la Maududi
- Turkey
- Muhammad Abduh
- India
- Iran
- Islamic modernism
- Wahhabism
- Almoravid dynasty
- Lebanon
- Islamic economics
- Muhammad
- Marxism
- Islamic world
- Middle East
- Ibn Khaldun
- Mecca
- South Asia
- Nation state
- Nationalism
- Ottoman Empire
- Political science
- Religion
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Spain
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Contemporary Islamic philosophy.