(March 3, 2024 at 3:13 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: It appears it is not true that there is no moderate Islam. There certainly was, but its moderation did it no good against European colonialism and as a result it fell out of grace against more vigorously grass root anti-colonial fundamentalist revival movements of the 19th century.
Islam actually did mellow out in good parts of the Islamic world from 13-18th century, for example in the modern Indonesian peninsular, Where arrival of Islam not only didn’t lead to women having to go about about wearing face covering, but they in fact customarily went about topless, and foreign traders from Europe, India, China, etc. commented on the forgiving social moral and very friendly local women.
Modern conservative fundamentalist Islam arose partly out of ulema of Ahl-i Hadith anti-colonial movement against the Dutch in the East Indies in the late 18th and 19th century. The author Simon Winchester also posited a strong Dutch East Indies link to the near simultaneous rise of anti-colonial Islamic revivalist movements such as Salaffya movement in Arabia.
The rise and strengthening of Islamic fundamentalist movements as a anti-colonial response in the 18-19 century will find a replay in the 20th century, as a seemingly more vigorous and grass route response to the failure of modernist secularist pan-Arab movements failure to deal with what is perceived as symbol of continued modern European colonial domination of the Islamic world symbolized by the imposition of the state of Israel.
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Is there a Time Machine involved?
Boru
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