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Taste of Modernity
Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 34
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Modernization in the Muslim world was determined by the two interrelated processes of indigenous state formation and European economic penetration. These drove governments to enlist the orthodox and the masses in support of the consolidation of their central authority, and religious reformers to seek, partly through Western devices, checks on their autocracy.
Concentrating on late-Ottoman Damascus, a focal point in the modernization of Islam in the Arab world, this study analyses the conceptual and social evolution among the three consecutive reform trends of the period: the KhÄlidÄ« branch of the Naqshbandiyya order, the AkbarÄ« interpretation of Ibn âArabÄ«'s theosophy, and the SalafÄ« adaptation of Ibn Taymiyya's teaching.
Through these reform trends, the study traces the emergence of modern Islam from its pre-modern Sufi reformist tradition. It also examines the relationship of Islamic modernization to the rise of Arab nationalism.
Concentrating on late-Ottoman Damascus, a focal point in the modernization of Islam in the Arab world, this study analyses the conceptual and social evolution among the three consecutive reform trends of the period: the KhÄlidÄ« branch of the Naqshbandiyya order, the AkbarÄ« interpretation of Ibn âArabÄ«'s theosophy, and the SalafÄ« adaptation of Ibn Taymiyya's teaching.
Through these reform trends, the study traces the emergence of modern Islam from its pre-modern Sufi reformist tradition. It also examines the relationship of Islamic modernization to the rise of Arab nationalism.
Itzchak Weismann, Ph.D. (1997), is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, Israel.
This study examines the conceptual and social responses among the three consecutive Islamic reform trends of nineteenth-century Damascus - the Naqshbandi order, the Akbarī theosophy, and the Salafī tendency - to the two-fold challenge of modernity: Ottoman state formation and European economic penetration.