The historical course of Islam 6

📚 Part 6 of 6 in the series on the history and civilisation of Islam according to Marshall Hodgson.

In this closing episode of the cycle “A reading in the history of the Islamic world”, Gerdi Demneri carries on through the historian Marshall Hodgson's work (“The Venture of Islam”), focusing on two themes tied directly to modernity: the rise of the West, and the Muslim response to Western hegemony.

The first part traces the great Western transformation — from the Renaissance, the city-states and the Protestant Reformation, to the birth of the nation-state, colonialism and the industrial revolution — which gave the West its global advantage. The second part deals with the collision with the Islamic world and the revival and reform movements that came in response: from Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh to Salafism, nationalism and Western-style reform, and the Islamist movements in India and the Arab world.

Some of the points covered: 📌 How the West rose: the Renaissance, the nation-state and the industrial revolution 📌 The Protestant Reformation and the empowering of the individual 📌 Colonialism and the exploitation of the Islamic world 📌 Movements for the revival of Islam as a response to hegemony 📌 Al-Afghani, Abduh and the birth of Salafism 📌 The three paths of response: reform, nationalism and Islamism

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