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2 unusual facts about Islamic revival


Islamic revival

Khomeini and Tabatabaei taught many students who have achieved high positions in the Hawza of Qom.

Abul Ala Maududi was the later leader of this movement who established Jamaat-e-Islami in South Asia.


Islamization

Historians such as Ira Lapidus have concluded that since the 1970s, the Islamic world has witnessed a phenomenon called "Islamic revival" similar to a Christian revival—often associated with Islamic fundamentalism, Islamism and other forms of re-Islamization.


see also

Saba Mahmood

She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005) in which she theorizes the concept of habitus from a genealogy that begins with Aristotle and extends into the Islamic tradition.