PROPOSALS: FINAL PAPER TOPICS
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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In order to understand the historical and contemporary issues in the Islamic world , precisely in the Middle East, we must first distinguish the difference between
The Islamic religion and the Islamic History.
The Islamic religion is the set of divine principles and values revealed to Prophet Muhammad by God through the Holy script Quran and certain Hadith (Prophets actions , sayings and pronouncement). Those principals were considered the major sources of legislation in Islam ( later after Muhammad’s death other sources were added and varied between Sunni, Shiaat and other Islamic doctrines)
The Islamic history is the political history of Islam which concentrated mostly on the struggle over the ruling authority (Khelafah). This struggle led to the appearance of various Islamic movements and parties legitimizing and justifying the right to rule on religious bases (politicizing the religion) . This gradually led to view the Khelafah as a divine rule in which started from succeeding the prophet in his state authority in leading the nation “Umma” , to succeeding him in his state authority and divine religious right and eventually the succession of prophet and God.
This misconception between Islamic history and religion constrained the Muslims minds in addressing historical facts and in most cases led to its denial, and even diminishing it from the Islamic memory and resulted in a fractured documented type of history. History with its characters and movements became divine, and criticizing them meant criticizing the Islamic religion.
To understand the Islamic history (political history), we have to go back and analyze the socio-political structure in Arabia before Islam and its influence over viewing the message of Islam in early stages, and its shadow over the struggle for Khelafah. Also we have to analyze the participation of non-Arab nations converted to Islam due to the territorial expansion of Islam through conquest (Ftoohat), and their influence over the pre-existed political struggle for Khelafah. And then determine the results of this political struggle in forming the various Islamic ideologies and doctrines (Sunni, Shiaat, Khawarej, Sufi), and the differences within the ideology and doctrine itself. Finally to determine if the contemporary political issues in the Middle East and the Islamic world are the continuation of the Islamic political history, especially with the absence of the center focus of the political struggle the Khelafah. Or is it a new start for different shape of political struggle with different elements and focuses.
Khelafah was officially and publicly cancelled by Turkey (Sultan Abdel-Hameed) on March 3rd 1924, and since that date and despite all the effort at the beginning, the Muslims failed to come up with consensus on its legitimacy and political structure. Was the Khelafah banished due to the international conspiracy against Islam, or because of the divergence between its theory and practices, or is it because its structure, practices and legitimacy didn’t originate from the spirit of the religion from the beginning.
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