Directory of Revival Resources

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The impact of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, encroaching European colonial powers, and the rapid decline of the Ottoman Caliphate prompted deep soul-searching among many Muslim thinkers. A major thread in this ferment was an idea of returning to the roots of Muslim faith, to rediscover the vitality and strength to withstand the external pressures.

Subcategories

• Abduh, Muhammed
• Ibn Abd al Wahhab, Muhammad
• Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din
• Iqbal, Muhammad
• Qutb, Sayyid
• Rida, Muhammad Rashid
• al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din

Resources in This Category

• Africa and Islamic Revival

  http://www.uga.edu/islam/hunwick.html
  An article on the history of Islam and the impact of revival movements in Africa, by John Hunwick.

• Great Muslims of the 20th Century

  http://www.islam101.com/history/people/century20/
  Biographies of six Muslim thinkers prominent in the Islamic reawakening of the twentieth century.

• Islam and Modernism

  http://www.ghazali.net/book4/
  An online book by Abdus Sattar Ghazali; examines movements of regeneration and/or revival in the Muslim world from the 18th to the 20th centuries; includes an appendix on "Islam and Politics in Pakistan".

• Islamic Revivalism and the Nation-State Project

  http://www.iol.ie/~afifi/Articles/revival.htm
  Traces the development of Islamic revival movements in 20th century Turkey; a paper by Yildiz Atasoy (1996).

• Saudi Arabia

  http://www.cqpress.com/context/articles/epr_saudi.html
  An account of the history and role of the Saudi kingdoms, and the religious-political alliance based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Muslim religious reformer.

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