HIST 1011 Lecture 27: The-Islamic-World-Order
Document Summary
External challenge: external pressure of western powers: france in europe and russia in central asia and britain in india and. Dutch in indonesia: defeated and conquered or pushed back, muslims get together in mecca on the hajj. Internal challenge: legitimacy of islamic regime, challenges from french revolution on legitimacy of traditional regimes, muslims questioning traditional orders of islamic societies. Ibn wahab and the fundamentalist response: was reformist that became fundamentalist , wahabism emerged from the internal reform of islam, 1703-1782, popular in arabia, restore the early ideas and days of the religion (muhammed and his companions) Islam is mainly monotheism cannot revere or worship anything other than god even the cult of. Mohammed: forms alliance with local tribal families called saudis, saudis have control of mecca and medinah, was put down by mehmit ali and ottoman, wahabi ideas spread and became popular. Increasing encroachment from europe: pan-arabism liberating some arab communities.
