Islam as Power: Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah by Bianka Speidl

Islam as Power: Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah by Bianka Speidl

Author:Bianka Speidl [Speidl, Bianka]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Shi'A, Religion, Middle Eastern, Political Science, World, Islam
ISBN: 9781000287967
Google: eFwEEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 54486238
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-03T00:00:00+00:00


The weak society: Faḍlallāh’s social criticism

Faḍlallāh’s contention is that a weak society lacks social coherence. The absence of common beliefs, obligations, and responsibilities exerts a centrifugal force leading to destruction. He explains the weak society by describing the Jewish community at the birth of Islam as follows:

[The Jews of Medina] had conflicting personal interests that made each faction or even each person an independent entity whose interests and goals conflicted with those of the others in the community…. [The] difference in feelings, inclinations and orientations that turns into differing plans, actions, stances… is in fact internal fragmentation that evolves into an external one.13



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