Islamic Revivalism and Social Transformation in the Modern World

• Other Authors: Ali, Jan A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; the Qur'an; exegesis; ijtihad; revival; renewal; modernity; Tabligh Jama'at; emotion work; emotions; framing; social transformation; extremism(s); Islamism; eco-radicals; frames; Tajdid; Australian Muslims; Said Nursi; Hizmet Movement; mosque open day; Muslims in the West; Australian Intercultural Society; Fethullah Gülen; Affinity Intercultural Society; Muslim consumer ethics; youth; media; digital age; Hizmet; revivalism; revivalist movements; education; interfaith dialogue; intercultural dialogue; Islamic movements; multiculturalism; cosmopolitanism; Tablighi Jamaat; COVID-19; WhatsApp; traditional; Islamic revivalist movement; digital religion; Pakistan; netnography; logics; authority; Salafism; reversion; deprivation; women movements; 'Aisyiyah; Muhammadiyah; modernism; literacy; Indonesian Islam; crisis of modernity; Islamic revivalism; Islamization of modernity; rationality; secularism; Maulana Tariq Jamil; Tablighi Jama'at; Raiwind; Deoband; Islam in Pakistan; ulama; religious authority; popular preachers; Islamic televangelists; da'wa; n/a
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This reprint examines the panorama of contemporary Islamic revivalism in the modern world. Constituted by methodologically and ideologically a wide variety of revivalist movements, Islamic revivalism is a complex multidimensional global reality. In a local context, it is a socio-religious reaction to the failure of state-led modernization projects and to general socio-economic quandaries, and in international context, it is a reaction to the wide-ranging crises of modernity. The collection provides important insights into the reality of contemporary Islamic revivalism through an examination of myriad socio-cultural, economic, and political problems facing Muslims at micro- and macro-levels of everyday living. It explains how Islamic revivalist movements are engaged in revivalist activities commonly known as Islamization at an individual level as well as at a community level and reveals that as a global reality, contemporary Islamic revivalism is neither necessarily violent nor anti-modernity but an attempt by religiously motivated concerned Muslims to bring about a self-conceived positive social transformation of individual societies and the modern world at large.