Islamism, Islamic Modernism and the Search for Modern Authenticity in an Imaginary Past

How to be authentically modern? This was the pervasive question behind the ideological elaborations of numerous religious and nationalist movements toward the end of the nineteenth century. Many of them attempted to find the answer in an imaginary past. This article claims that Islamist movements ar...

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Autor principal:	Dietrich Jung
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	authenticity modernity Islamic modernism golden age Islamist movements Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9f0c3f0c4143413abfab0a52209900702021-11-25T18:53:17ZIslamism, Islamic Modernism and the Search for Modern Authenticity in an Imaginary Past10.3390/rel121110052077-1444https://doaj.org/article/9f0c3f0c4143413abfab0a52209900702021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/1005https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1444How to be authentically modern? This was the pervasive question behind the ideological elaborations of numerous religious and nationalist movements toward the end of the nineteenth century. Many of them attempted to find the answer in an imaginary past. This article claims that Islamist movements are not an exception, but rather an affirmation of this rule. The orientation towards a “golden age” of Islam and its allegedly authentic Islamic way of life has been a crucial feature of Islamist thought across all national, sectarian and ideological divides. The article traces this invocation of the past historically back to the construction of specifically Islamic forms of modernity by representatives of Islamic modernism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Interpreting their modernist thought in the context of more global nineteenth-century concepts and narratives, the article argues from a comparative perspective that Islamic modernism laid the foundations for the ways in which Islamist thinkers have constructed both individual and collective forms of Muslim identities.Dietrich JungMDPI AGarticleauthenticitymodernityIslamic modernismgolden ageIslamist movementsReligions. Mythology. RationalismBL1-2790ENReligions, Vol 12, Iss 1005, p 1005 (2021)
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description	How to be authentically modern? This was the pervasive question behind the ideological elaborations of numerous religious and nationalist movements toward the end of the nineteenth century. Many of them attempted to find the answer in an imaginary past. This article claims that Islamist movements are not an exception, but rather an affirmation of this rule. The orientation towards a “golden age” of Islam and its allegedly authentic Islamic way of life has been a crucial feature of Islamist thought across all national, sectarian and ideological divides. The article traces this invocation of the past historically back to the construction of specifically Islamic forms of modernity by representatives of Islamic modernism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Interpreting their modernist thought in the context of more global nineteenth-century concepts and narratives, the article argues from a comparative perspective that Islamic modernism laid the foundations for the ways in which Islamist thinkers have constructed both individual and collective forms of Muslim identities.
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Islamism, Islamic Modernism and the Search for Modern Authenticity in an Imaginary Past

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