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This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used symbols, ceremony and ritual to articulate their power, authority and legitimacy first within the context of resistance to the imperial Turco-Egyptian forces that had been occupying the Nilotic Sudan since 1821, and then within the context of establishing an Islamic state. This study examines five key elements from a historical perspective: the importance of Islamic mysticism as manifested in Sufi brotherhoods in the articulation of power in the Sudan; ceremony as handmaids of power and legitimacy; charismatic leadership; the routinization of charisma and the formation of a religious state purportedly based upon the first Islamic community in the seventh century C.E.

Islam and politics --- Islamic renewal --- Islam --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah --- Reform --- Renewal --- Sudan --- History

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During the 1940s and 1950s, Islamic reformism flourished in Iran. This book examines how Iranian Islamic groups came to rethink traditional accounts of religion and nurture a politicized version of Islam. The author shows how similar social and political circumstances, but different family and educational backgrounds gave rise to socialist, democratic/scientific and fundamentalist/militant reinterpretations of Islam. What was common among these groups was a tendency towards politicizing the religion. A significant contribution to discussions of contemporary political thought in Iran, this book

Islam and politics --- Islamic renewal --- Islam --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah --- Reform --- Renewal

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Les nombreuses réaffirmations de l’orthodoxie musulmane, comme les multiples attentes politiques et sociales concernant une « réforme » de la religion, dissimulent pour une large part le rythme et les motifs de la pensée théologique contemporaine en islam. Cette enquête, qui situe la « nouvelle théologie » dans le temps long, s’attache à en retracer l’essor depuis la fin des années 1980. Elle met en lumière les problèmes clés autour desquels s’organisent les réflexions des principaux théologiens égyptiens, iraniens et turcs – de Nasr Hâmid Abû Zayd et Hasan Hanafî, à Ömer Özsoy et Ilhami Güler, en passant par Abd ol-Karîm Sorûsh, Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestarî, Mohsen Kadîwar et Mostafâ Malekiyân.Procédant à un inventaire critique des savoirs religieux, cette constellation d’auteurs contribue en effet à redéfinir la foi et l’expérience religieuse, à repenser les rapports entre l’islam et les autres religions, voire à redéfinir la nature et le statut du Coran, proposant de la sorte diverses voies pour refonder la dogmatique. Plongée érudite et passionnante dans l’évolution doctrinale de l’islam de ces dernières décennies, cette histoire polyphonique parvient à nous faire entendre ces mélodies nouvelles au sein d’une ligne classique encore dominante.

Islam --- Islamic renewal --- Islamic modernism --- Doctrines --- History --- Modernism, Islamic --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah --- Reform --- Renewal

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There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world. The conflict pits Muslims who support pluralism and democracy against others who insist such institutions are antithetical to Islam. With some 1.3 billion people worldwide professing Islam, the outcome of this contest is sure to be one of the defining political events of the twenty-first century. Bringing together twelve engaging essays by leading specialists focusing on individual countries, this pioneering book examines the social origins of civil-democratic Islam, its long-term prospects, its implications for the West, and its lessons for our understanding of religion and politics in modern times. Although depicted by its opponents as the product of political ideas "made in the West" civil-democratic Islam represents an indigenous politics that seeks to build a distinctive Islamic modernity. In countries like Turkey, Iran, Malaysia, and Indonesia, it has become a major political force. Elsewhere its influence is apparent in efforts to devise Islamic grounds for women's rights, religious tolerance, and democratic citizenship. Everywhere it has generated fierce resistance from religious conservatives. Examining this high-stakes clash, Remaking Muslim Politics breaks new ground in the comparative study of Islam and democracy. The contributors are Bahman Baktiari, Thomas Barfield, John R. Bowen, Dale F. Eickelman, Robert W. Hefner, Peter Mandaville, Augustus Richard Norton, Gwenn Okruhlik, Michael G. Peletz, Diane Singerman, Jenny B. White, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman.

Islam and politics --- Islamic renewal --- Religion and politics --- Islamic countries --- Politics and government --- Islam --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Reform --- Renewal --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah

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Despite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically ‘legalistic’ and Muslims as uniformly ‘transgressive’ when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to misrepresentations of pre-colonial Muslim norms and undue emphasis on colonial reforms alone when charting the course to post-coloniality. This book presents and challenges staple perspectives with a comprehensive reinterpretation of doctrinal sources, literary expressions and colonial records spanning the period from the reign of the 'Great Mughals' to end of the 'British Raj' (1526-1947). The result is an alternative vision of this transformative period in South Asian history, and an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broadly.

Islam --- Islamic renewal --- Muslims --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- History. --- Reform --- Renewal