RESURGENCE OF ISLAM

Can the `resurgence' of Islam is explained as a defensive reaction to modernity?

Can the `resurgence' of Islam is explained as a defensive reaction to modernity?

Introduction

The Islamic revival as a kind of religious revival is an attempt to adequately respond to socio-cultural challenges of today's globalizing world, which consists in an appeal to traditional religious values ??and norms of Islam, which proclaims a departure from the cause of most social problems of the traditional regions of Islam. This attempt is associated with the release of Muslim countries in the world arena of political and economic rivalry, the desire to build their geo-politics, as opposed to the dominance of western (North American and European) powers.

Islamic Revival is a socio-cultural phenomenon of the late XX and early XXI century. Associated with the treatment of Islam as the ideological foundation of the traditional society of many people, a society which inevitably being upgraded and experiences in the modernisation of considerable discomfort, arise from the fact that the modernisation of its potential spiritual foundations of the Islamic culture, is used by Muslim society. Islamic Society era of the Caliphate in this respect has seen supporters of the Islamic Renaissance, since it is using the legacy of ancient philosophy (and ideologically to Islam), has an extraordinary burst of culture and presented the Islamic society at that point in history as the most advanced society.

The main factors of Islamic revival have socio-political nature. The first factor is an Islamic dominance in the traditional culture of a particular geo-social space (the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, in Russia: the Northern Caucasus and the Volga region). The second factor is the ethnic opposition to the processes of cultural assimilation on the part of the European powers, and the last quarter of the twentieth century. The third factor is the consolidation of the Islamic world, as opposed to the Western powers.

Description and Analysis

The revival of Islam is not the restoration of the norms of life of previous generations, but only a modification of the status of religion under the impact of changes in the level of social needs and their ideological incarnation, as well as the interaction with the global Islamic Ummah. The revival of Islam in the context of modernisation processes of modern society, on the one hand, it is the most important factor in preserving ethnic and cultural identity, on the other, an important fact in the struggle between political elites (traditional and new, which uses the ideology of Salafism), to increase social mobility (migration between Muslim regions of Islamic education as a "social elevator", etc.). Traditional Islam stands, because of its considerable adaptive capacity as a most acute manifestation of modernisation (Abu Rabi' 1996, 90).

To implement the adaptive capacity of traditional Islam requires a decision by three major problems of the spiritual education of Muslims. Establishing horizontal linkages between institutions in different regions, different spiritual administrations of Muslims, the creation of a single software and minimum requirements for graduates at the secondary ...