Fiona’s Reviews > The Crisis of Islamic Civilization > Status Update
Fiona
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Islam was not allowed to enter modernity naturally nor by its own terms, Muslim nations were first dominated by colonial powers then by the elites who took over & attempted to make their countries "catch up", butchering one experiment after another. Meanwhile, Islam continuously rejected the values & systems of post-war modernity; and so it is Islam, not Muslim countries, which is seen as incompatible with the world.
— Oct 16, 2023 10:59AM
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Fiona
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"The Islamic Umma, therefore, does not quite correspond to the modern state, since it combines territoriality with non-territoriality, transcendence with temporality."
— May 31, 2024 09:34AM
Fiona
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I'm so sick of this guy atp he should stick to following the history of Islamic civilisation in decline rather than go on sectarian rants & writing about heretic reformers.
— May 27, 2024 08:34AM
Fiona
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"My heart has become capable of all forms; for gazelles a meadow, for monks, a monastery."
Ibn 'Arabi
— Apr 23, 2024 04:17AM
Ibn 'Arabi
Fiona
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There were several reasons as to why the Muslim world "missed the danger signals" emanating from the West and its threat to Islamic civilisation. 1) For centuries, in the confrontation between Islam and Christendom, the former was the one that usually flourished, and now could not accept the idea of learning from a "lesser form". 2) The very speed and intensity at which the post-enlightenment imperial West developed.
— Nov 14, 2023 03:58AM
Fiona
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Countless movements & attempts at renewing Islamic civilisation, from historicising to radicalising to reforming to modernising, have failed. This can mean either of two things:
1) That we are at a point of no return, & Islamic civilisation can't be renewed or
2) That another approach is needed, one that focuses on the distinguishing core of Islam, that of the sacred, which has been lost from personal & public life.
— Oct 16, 2023 03:29PM
1) That we are at a point of no return, & Islamic civilisation can't be renewed or
2) That another approach is needed, one that focuses on the distinguishing core of Islam, that of the sacred, which has been lost from personal & public life.
