Assignment Task
Your assignment task is to write a Research Paper in no more than words on ONE of the following eight questions listed below.
Using between 10 and 15 relevant scholarly sources students must write an analytical and reflective Research Paper.
You are required to use the HARVARD style referencing in this assignment.
Essay Questions
Olivier Roy (2003) argues that the EuroIslam is a form of Islam that has emerged in recent years in Western Europe as an alternative to traditional and ethnicised Islam divorced from its place of origin and traverse the globe. Critically examine Roy’s argument.
Explain what happens in the process of de-ethnicisation of Islam in the context of Islamic revivalism.
In the discussions of resurgent Islam, Western-born Muslims are viewed to be different from their migrant counterparts? Critically evaluate the
The most impactful effect of the Tabligh Jama’at on its original place of birth - Mewat in India and subsequently elsewhere was the Islamisation of the established socio-cultural traditions. What were the catalysts for the emergence of the Tabligh Jama’at in Mewat and what is its
connection with the contemporary phenomenon of Islamic revivalism? Examine.
According to the “defensive reaction to modernity perspective” the world today is a place of great “disenchantment” and is in crisis as a result of the perceived or real failure of the “modernity project”. What are the failures of modernity and how Islamic revivalists seek to overcome them?
Since the 1970s, a worldwide Islamic revivalism has emerged in response to popular Muslim disappointment with secularism and Westernsism. “Islamic revivalism” in academic circles has come to represent an umbrella encompassing term which focuses on a wide variety of movements, some with intolerant and exclusivist attitude and some with pluralistic outlook yet still some accommodating of science and some anti-scientific and then there are some essentially devotional and some chiefly political. Thus, not all Islamic revivalist movements are the same. What distinguishes these movements?
Sayyid Qutb advanced the thesis that the contemporary world is in a state of jahiliyya (godlessness) and that Muslims who are true to their faith have the responsibility to conquer the jahili order and recreate it anew through infusing righteousness and piety into themselves and their society. Critique this thesis.
Some scholars such as Youssef Choueiri (1996) posit that for Islamist theoreticians the likes of Maududi and Qutb Islam is basically incompatible with secular modernity and that for Islamist ideology and blueprint of society to succeed then secular modernity have to be reformed in line with Islamic principles and values. What is your reading of Islamist ideology and blueprint of society? Discuss