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Islamic revival (Arabic: تجديد tajdīd, lit., "regeneration, renewal"; also الصحوة الإسلامية aṣ-Ṣaḥwah l-ʾIslāmiyyah, "Islamic awakening") refers to a revival of the Islamic religion, usually centered around enforcing sharia. [1] A leader of a revival is known in Islam as a mujaddid.
A mujaddid (Arabic: مجدد) is an Islamic term for one who brings "renewal" (تجديد, tajdid) to the religion. [1] [2] According to the popular Muslim tradition, it refers to a person who appears at the turn of every century of the Islamic calendar to revitalize Islam, cleansing it of extraneous elements and restoring it to its pristine purity.
The Sunni Revival was a period in Islamic history marked by the revival of the political fortunes of Sunni Islam, a renewed interest in Sunni law and theology and the spread of new styles in art and architecture. Conventionally, the revival lasted from 1055 until 1258.
In the late 20th century an Islamic Revival or Islamic Awakening developed in the Muslim World. (Islamic fundamentalism is the common term in the West used to refer to contemporary Islamic revivalism, according to John Esposito. [26]) It was manifested in greater religious piety and in a growing adoption of Islamic culture. [27]
Islamic Reformism may refer to: Islah, an Arabic word, usually translated as 'reform' Islamic revival, revivalism of the Islamic religion within the Islamic tradition; Islamic Modernism, a historical movement emerged in the 19th century that attempts to reconcile Islamic faith with modernity
Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad is a 2004 book by academic Natana J. DeLong-Bas, published by Oxford University Press.It is based "on a close study of the 14 volumes" of collected works of Wahhabism's founder, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and has been called "the first extensive explication of the theology" of Wahhabism.
In the 1950s, 1960s, and most of the 1970s, Western countries sometimes attempted to take advantage of Islamic revival fervour to use it as a weapon against lefist adversaries, based on the assumption that whatever differences they had with pious Muslims, leftists and especially the Marxist-Leninist movement was a stronger and more dangerous ...
Sahwa movement (Arabic: الصحوة, romanized: al-Ṣaḥwa) or al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya (Islamic awakening) was a movement in Saudi Arabia from 1960–1980 which advocated for an increased reliance on Wahhabi principles in Saudi society by adopting Qutbism.