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Reza Pankhurst
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“While recognizing that Muslims had ceased to function as a unified body and therefore assumed national status, he believed that after the achievement of real independence—even if it relied on the use of nationalism as a foundation for the struggle against colonialism—it was necessary to return to true Islamic beliefs, specifically the unity of the Muslim nation. Upon examination of some of his speeches delivered in the mid to late 1980s, it becomes clear that Dr. Ahmad was seeking ways to reconstitute the universal Umma, which had been reduced to an “abstract concept,” his opinion being that this would be brought about by a smaller group, who would actively enjoin the good and forbid the evil.”
― The Inevitable Caliphate?: A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present
― The Inevitable Caliphate?: A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present
“They believe that the cause of the decline and eventual destruction of the caliphate was the adoption of paper money by the Ottoman State and its involvement in interest-based transactions.”
― The Inevitable Caliphate?: A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present
― The Inevitable Caliphate?: A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present
“The caliphate is therefore the Islamic state initially established on the back of public support that gives legitimacy to the shari‘a as the source of legislation, and consent to a caliph to apply it across society.”
― The Inevitable Caliphate?: A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present
― The Inevitable Caliphate?: A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present
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