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Jalal, Ayesha, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014)Google Scholar, esp. Unlike his Islamist and Salafi counterparts, however, he was focused primarily on preventing certain practices rather than on promoting affirmative modes of individual and collective moral formation. 1955/Ramadan 1374, 85968, at 859. 1 Sayyid Qutb, Nahwa Mujtama Islami: Kayfa Nastawhi al-Islam, al-Muslimun, Jan. 1953/Jumada al-Ula 1372, 4350, at 46. Also see 130 On the Brotherhoods limited ability to transmit its religious vision prior to 1976 as compared to Ansar al-Sunna and the Jamiyya Shariyya, see Rock-Singer, Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 8284. 125 On Qutbs later call for an Islamic Society, see Sayyid Qutb, Malim fi al-Tariq (Cairo: Dar al-Shuruq, 1979), 105. Google Scholar. Impact of Islam on Indian Society. 75 Such calls to fuse the nation-state framework with Islamic territorial visions undergirded later claims to Islamic Society. 23 Accordingly, this study brings together an ideologically diverse set of voices through a print media form consumed by middle class Egyptians. 137 Akhbar al-Jamaa, al-Tawhid, Dec. 1975/Dhu al-Hijja 1395, 29:23, at 29:3. For the Muslim Brotherhood, I use al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun (19331937, 19431948), al-Muslimun (19511954), and al-Dawa (19511956, 19761981), and for the YMMA, al-Fath (19261943). In contrast to Asads view,Footnote 57 Three weeks later, a second article in the journal noted that acts violating Islamic law (munkart) had become widespread and invoked the longstanding duty to command right and forbid wrong (al-amr bi-l-marf wal-nah an al-munkar). Beginning in the 1930s and stretching through the 1970s, everyone from traditionalist scholars employed within state-controlled institutions to Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis of Ansar al-Sunna al-MuhammadiyyaFootnote "useRatesEcommerce": true Scholars of Israel, India, Pakistan, Hungary, and Ireland have traced how this trend produces novel understandings of religious identity rather than replicating prior models.Footnote CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 18. Kaye, Alexander, The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice In his study of Egyptian nationalism, Ziad Fahmy argues that technological developments such as the growth of the railroad and postal systems and urbanization promoted the spread of Egyptian national identity, while enhancing the influence of key cities such as Cairo.Footnote th-Century Islamic Thought Located in Saudi Arabias capital city, Riyadh, the conference welcomed a reported 160 scholars from some twenty Muslim-majority countries and focused on the application of Islamic law. CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Leading reformers of the eighteenth century, such as the Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi (India, d. 1762), Muhammad b. Ismail al-Sanani (Yemen, d. 1769), Muhammad b. It tells us the way others imagine how Muslims are and even how they should be. Historians have long noted the ways in which Islamists implicitly accept the ideological claims and institutions of the nation-state even as they valorize a transnational Islamic community (umma).Footnote This is not to suggest that a concern with womens circulation outside of domestic space was new; Marion Katz has shown that as early as the ninth century, jurists articulated an explicit link between female sexuality and social disorder (fitna),Footnote Gek, Fatma Mge, Introduction: Narrative, Gender and Cultural Representation in the Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East, in Gek, F. M., ed., Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002), 114 Accordingly, I draw on a wide array of Islamic print media published between 1898 and 1981,Footnote CrossRefGoogle Scholar; also see While Islamists adopt an ecumenical approach that seeks to bracket ideological disagreements with other Islamic movements when faced with an opportunity to shape state or society, Salafis take the view that agreement on matters of theology and law is a necessary precondition of cooperation. 132 Ahmad Muhammad Tahir, Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya: NashatuhaAhdafuhaManhajuhaJuhuduha (Cairo, Egypt: Dar al-Hadi al-Nabawi li-l-Nashr wal-Tawzi/Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Dar al-Fadila li-l-Nashr wal-Tawzi, 2004), 241. 112 On the regulatory practices of British colonial rule, see ibid., 2361. B. Tauris 2013[2009]), 197230. Fahmy, Ziad, Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), 2729 Acknowledgments: I wish to thank Suzie Ferguson, Omar Anchassi, and Sarah Thal for their helpful comments on drafts of this article. On Egypt, see 33 Over the course of the nineteenth century, however, Islamic reformers were increasingly aware of European ascendencyFootnote 30 Instead, the call to society, specifically an Islamic Society, also depends on public practices of self-regulation (governanceFootnote This article also casts light on the development of religious nationalism more broadly. 8 In his study of American nationalism, Michael Billig coined the term banal nationalism to describe the ideological habits which enable the established nations of the West to be reproduced these habits are not removed from everyday life. Daily, the nation is indicated, or flagged, in the lives of its citizenry. Nationalism is the endemic condition. See 9 while scholars of Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood highlight this organizations commitment to forming such a collective while treating the concept as both fully-formed and sui generis.Footnote CrossRefGoogle Scholar, esp. 111 In this context, Abd al-Nasir empowered two key state institutions to transmit his priorities: the Islamic Research Academy at al-Azhar, which published al-Azhar, and the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, a body within the Ministry of Endowments that regulated Egyptian mosques and published Minbar al-Islam. CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 1139. Among Islamic periodicals, the Young Mens Muslim Associations al-Fath hosted the earliest elaborations of calls for the regulation of individual behavior. 55 Decades-long political conflicts in Afghanistan arecentered around the imposition of strict Islamic ideology. 97 While Ashmawi acknowledged the necessity of also calling for an Islamic government, such a political structure was the mere starting point for broader social change.Footnote Agrama, Hussein Ali, Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and This is not to say that umma was then equivalent to society but rather that Rida used umma to convey, within a moral-religious framework, notions of social order.Footnote "corePageComponentUseShareaholicInsteadOfAddThis": true, The term Jhiliyya was historically used to refer to the pre-Islamic age of barbarism in Arabia. The concept of revival or resurgence of Islam, and its attendant notions of fundamentalism and Islamic society, work against such an understanding due to their transhistorical nature. Within a few decades, vast numbers of people across three continents - Africa, Asia, and Europe - had chosen Islam as their way of life. ummah CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Zemmin also argues that Ridas claims to the relationship between Islam and society responded to the modern understanding of a self-sufficient, immanent social order, distinct from religion [by stressing] the Islamic principles underlying the progress or the order of mujtama. Allah is viewed as the sole Godcreator, sustainer, and . On Ireland, see 117 Accordingly, for al-Masiri, the project of Islamic Society depending on access to state-controlled levers of coercion. 139the prominence of this concept as an object and method of reform reflected and enhanced broader regional ideological winds. The shift from the secularism oriented goal to the religion colored violence builds the platform to debate on the trust and reliance in a relationship as well as interrogates the authenticity of law to safeguard people from the upcoming challenges. This contest over social life was hardly limited to Islamic movements: in his 1938 The Future of Culture in Egypt (Mustaqbal al-Thaqafa fi Misr), secular intellectual Taha Husayn does not employ mujtama but does refer to social life (al-ayt al-ijtimiyya), social order (al-nim al-ijtim), and our social morals (akhlqin al-ijtimiyya): Mustaqbal al-Thaqafa fi Misr (Cairo: Dar al-Maarif, 1993), 65, 72, and 252, respectively. Minbar al-Islam, on the other hand, was published in 1942 by the Mosques Division (Qism al-Masjid) within the Ministry of Endowments. Richter, Melvin and Robertson, Sally E., A Response to Comments on the Geschischtliche Grundbegriffe During the second half of the 1970s, proponents of an Islamic Society also sought to regulate women in public space. Most notably, a 2021 November 1975 conference included a series of resolutions including a call for the use of Sharia as the source of state law, the prevention of gender mixing (particularly within state educational institutions and on public transportation), and social reform through the realization of an Islamic Society (qiym al-Mujtama al-Islm).Footnote See 41 In sum, a concept whose origins lay in Europe had yet to find a singular term in Arabic. 12 including Muhammad Rashid Ridas (d. 1935) flagship journal (al-Manar, 18981935), multiple journals published by the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun), the Young Mens Muslim Association (al-Shubban al-Muslimun), the Lawful Society For Those Who Work Together According to the Quran and Sunna (al-Jamiyya al-Shariyya li-Tawun al-Amilin bi-l-Kitab wal-Sunna, henceforth the Jamiyya Shariyya), Proponents of the Prophetic Model (Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya, henceforth Ansar al-Sunna), the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (al-Majlis al-Ala li-l-Shuun al-Islamiyya) within the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments, and the Islamic Research Academy at al-Azhar University (Majma al-Buhuth al-Islamiyya).Footnote 92 An exception to this broad statement is the Jamiyya Shariyya, founded in 1912. Katz, Marion, 77107. 40 As Zemmin argues, During the lifespan of al-Manar, no one Arabic term was established for conceptualizing society [but] umma was a major option to this end.Footnote Khatib, Line, Islamic Revivalism in Syria: The Rise and Fall of Bathist Secularism (New York: Routledge, 2011)Google Scholar. In the process, these ideologically diverse competitors produced a concept that linked communal identity with individual practice. 127 The question of Islamic Society would gain new urgency in the early 1970s. Specifically, he calls for a united public opinion that produces sound rulers and individuals alike and enables the umma to expel evil or corruption from its midst.Footnote 6 or those of Soviet Society (Sovetskoe Obshchestvo) in the USSR,Footnote CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Jacob, Wilson Chacko, Working out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 18701940 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), 4464 Neither Buddhism nor. Gaffney, Patrick, The Changing Voices of Islam: The Emergence of Professional Preachers in Contemporary Egypt, Muslim World 81, 1 (1991): 2747 ) in twentieth-century Egypt. The period of Abd al-Nasirs rule is often identified with his efforts to position Egypt as a pan-Arab leader regionally and to implement scientific socialism locally.Footnote 7 134 Far more similar to Qutbs vision in Milestones than in al-Muslimun, Arnus described how, At the dawn of Islam, Islamic Society had an ideal and model form (wa-kna al-Mujtama al-Islm f sar al-Islm ra namdhajiyya mithliyya) with the Quran and HadithFootnote Impact of Islam on Indian Culture. On the longer-term bureaucratization of law, including Siyasa and Fiqh, see People developed parochial outlooks and identities. Calls for Islamic Society from within the Egyptian governments religious institutions served not only to buttress state power but also to justify secular nationalism under a postcolonial state. On the challenge posed by the Muslim Brotherhoods thinkers to the scholarly elite, see Kalmbach, Islamic Knowledge, 16974. 104 Sayyid Qutb, Nahwa Mujtama Islami: Mujtama Alami, al-Muslimun, Apr. Google Scholar. CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 89 In this vein, Azzam concludes that proselytization is the basis of reform prior to legislation.Footnote 144 For example, Ali Abd al-Jalil Radi, Qism al-Tallaba: Fitnat al-Asr, al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, 6 Dec. 1933/19 Shaban 1352, 2122. 37 Florian Zemmin argues that Rida used the term to denote a moral community guided by religion. 46 On the increasing use of the social body (al-haya al-ijtimiyya) from the mid-nineteenth century on, see 26 For an exception, see 38 Zemmin, Modernity, 20910. 106. Yet, his understanding of Islamic Society, like that of religious nationalists within and beyond Egypt, was inextricably premised on the decidedly novel model of self-regulating pious Muslims who, through their collective practices that far exceeded the realm of legal obedience, would uphold an Islamic Society. 9 For example, see 1953/Shaban 1372, 2632; Qutb, Nahwa Mujtama Islami: Mujtama Alami, al-Muslimun, May 1953 /Ramadan 1372, 3843; Qutb, Nahwa Mujtama Islami: Mujtama Alami, al-Muslimun, June 1953/Shawwal 1372, 1623; Qutb, Nahwa Mujtama Islami: Mujtama Alami, al-Muslimun, July/Dhu al-Qada 1372, 1418; Qutb, Nahwa Mujtama Islami: Nizam Rabbani, al-Muslimun, Nov. 1953/Rabi al-Awwal 1373, 1523; and Qutb, Nahwa Mujtama Islami: Nizam Rabbani, al-Muslimun, Dec. 1953/Rabi al-Thani 1373, 2124. 110 and reformed the public educational system in an attempt to inculcate a religio-political vision that accorded with his policies and preempted political dissent.Footnote Omar, Hussein, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Cage, in Devji, Faisal and Kazmi, Zaheer, eds., Islam after Liberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 1746 10 In his classic study of the Muslim Brotherhood, Richard P. Mitchell uses this term without pinpointing either its origins or acknowledging a dynamic process of formation: The Society of the Muslim Brothers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 76, 237, 241, 283. Mustafa and Idris (2015) revealed that the emergence of Islamic finance in. 61 the Brotherhood worked in the early 1930s to build a network of branches.Footnote Santing, Kiki, Imagining the Perfect Society in Muslim Brotherhood Journals: An Analysis of Al-Dawa and Liwa al-Islam (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2020)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Dallal, Ahmad S., 114 al-Masiri, al-Nuzum allati Yaqum, 859. de Bolla, Peter, The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 26 Worshipers . In the wake of the repression of the Brotherhood, scholars and bureaucrats within the Islamic Research Academy and Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs appropriated the concept of Islamic Society as they articulated a vision of state power. Notwithstanding the significant repression faced by the Muslim Brotherhood during this period, its members continued to explore the parameters of an Islamic Society in both theory and practice. Background Of Zia's IslamizationProgramme. 67 Fi Jamiyyat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin, Jaridat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin, 20 July 1933/27 Rabi al-Awwal 1352, 2021, at 21. 20 In this article, I follow Reinhart Kosellecks call to explore concepts as both indicators of and factors in political and social life. See In Europe, the unrest owing to the migration of populations gave way to the kingdoms of the Goths, the Lombards, and . 64 The early twentieth century also saw the rise of competing visions of Egyptian Nationalism, including Islamic, Easternist, Supra-Egyptian, and Pan-Arab varieties.Footnote When Islam came in the Arab peninsula, its relations got a new dimension. Neither is the focus on forming an ideologically-distinct society unique to the Islamic or Egyptian case. In a November 1954 article in al-Azhar, published in the midst of the crackdown on Egypts leading Islamist organization, Muhammad Muhi al-Din al-Masiri (d. 1972) sought to elucidate the systems on which Islamic Society is based (al-nuum allat yaqm alayh kiyn al-Mujtama al-Islm).Footnote In what follows, I therefore tell a story of how the concept of Islamic Society became both intellectually thinkable and politically meaningful, beginning in the 1930s as Muslim thinkers, activists, and scholars in Egypt navigated the transition from colonial to postcolonial rule. Eliot, T. S., The Idea of a Christian Society (New York: Hardcourt Brace, 1940)Google Scholar. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History, Comparative Studies in Society and History. Islamic Belief & Its Impact on Individual & Society and the Fundamental of Islam 1. 37 78 At this time, however, Ansar al-Sunnas activities focused on transmitting Salafi (e.g., neo-Hanbali) understanding of Islamic theology and precise ritual practice within mosques, and it had yet to turn to articulating a broader vision of Islamic Society in print.Footnote There are two states of the mind with regard to it being the source of actions. The gradual development of Islamic Society also intervenes in the scholarship on religion and state in twentieth-century Egypt that has been dominated by scholars of secularism. 15 I deliberately focus on a single country. I have compared hard copies of the magazine with the .bok version to confirm general accuracy. 17 149 Abd al-Aziz b. Baz, Khatar Musharakat al-Mara li-l-l-Rajul fi Maydan Amalih, al-Tawhid, Aug.1978/Ramadan 1398, 1317, at 14. 85 Indeed, for Azzam, Muslims viceregency of God on earth, long understood as taking the particular institutional form of a Caliphate,Footnote Just as writers in al-Fath called for the protection of Islamic Egypt, so too did other Islamic movements increasingly link individual conduct and the communal whole. 50, Ridas reformist project, and the question of society, emerged out of not only internal debates among Muslim scholars and intellectuals over the nature of religious reform, but also the expansion of urbanization, access to print media, and political contestation in early twentieth-century Egypt. 120 Declaring that the principles in question could be called socialism, reformist principles, or an Islamic system, Baysar argued that socialism could serve as a means to realize a shared goal.Footnote divisions from top to bottom - Hindus and Muslims. Islamic beliefs eliminate distinction among people on the basis of colour, language and nationality. 15 For an example of this turn, see 7 the aspiration to form distinct societies was part and parcel of varied nationalist projects to define and regulate identity through social practice.Footnote See ibid., 163. 57 Muhammad Said Ahmad Ali, al-Mara wal-Din, al-Fath, 24 Feb. 1927/22 Shaban 1345, 5. 5 invocations of Hindu Society (Hindu Samaj) in British-ruled India,Footnote 112 Abd al-Nasirs project of secular nationalism thus depended not on restricting Islam to private space, but rather on utilizing it in the service of particular ideological goals. During the early 1940s, however, the Brotherhood first sought to link belief and action in the service of a broader social project.
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