By Shireen Hunter, Shireen T Hunter
This compelling quantity introduces the present iteration of average reformist thinkers and activists inside Islam, the highbrow traditions they convey on, and the explanations why reformist activities in a few international locations and areas were overshadowed via fundamentalist, progressive, and jihadist activities within the Islamic global this present day.
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These theories maintained that the process of economic and social development would inevitably eliminate traditional social, political, and cultural structures and systems of values and would lead to the secularization of society and hence the marginalization of religion as a sociopolitical force and key ingredient in a society’s organization. 43 This view is rooted in the post-Enlightenment belief in linear progress, with secularization in an increasingly differentiated public sphere as an important aspect.
Writing as an Iranian and as a Shi‘a, Shariati also viewed the corruption of what he called Alid Shi‘ism (shi‘a e alavi) by the Safavids and their successors, thus turning it into what he called Safavid Shi‘ism (shi‘a e safavi), as the main cause of the crisis in Iranian Islam and society. According to Shariati, the most damaging aspect of this falling away from the Islam of the Prophet and the Qur’an has been 8 SHIREEN T. HUNTER Islam’s transformation from a religion of knowledge, activity, justice, and piety into one of ignorance, passivity, superstition, and tyranny.
However, they aimed to achieve these goals by using different analytical and methodological tools. They had acquired these tools through their access to modern education and the influence of the West’s dominant ideologies, namely capitalism and socialism. The result was the development of alternative Islamic socioeconomic and political projects on the basis of an “ideologized” as well as idealized Islamic past. The emergence of this trend in the late 1960s and the early 1970s surprised development experts.
