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This week's material
covers colonialism, mostly by Europeans,
of major parts up the middle and Near East
and also North Africa. Colonialism for most Muslims
was perceived as a threat of Western political
and cultural domination and assimilation.
This not only resulted from the state
of siege posed by European powers
but also by Muslim Elites
who were regarded as indigenous domestic colonizers.
In response to the Westernization
of Muslim society, these
internal and external threats motivated revivalists
to assume a defensive posture to defend Islam
and its way of life against Westernization,
instead of to the adequate
reexamining and reinterpreting islam itself.
Colonialism and other factors lead to
immigration of many Muslims to other countries
including those in the West, forming a transnationalism
and globalization of Islam.
Revival and reform, though dominant themes in
Islam since the 18th century, Muslims hasn't
responded to, really, the internal and external forces that challenge their faith
and social order. Islam was used effectively
as the formation of Islamic socio-political
reform organizations, as a result, and Islamic modernist movements.
Revivalist movements in the 18th and 19th centuries
demonstrated the power of an appeal to Islam
in providing a rationale for community
decline initiating religio-political movements
bent on social and moral reform. Despite their differences,
pre-modernist movements did leave a legacy
to modern Islam in their ideological interpretation of Islam,
and their activist methods and their organization.
Islam proved a portent force
in both the response of internal decline and in
the reactions of the communities to European imperialism.
In addition to your readings and viewing assignments
for this unit and your posting to the discussion forum,
you have a major project this week to submit
a substantive presentation. You can use PowerPoint
or Prezi, as examples, that take advantage of various technologies and
medias to tell a story
about some component id Islam that you've learned about
in Modules 6 and 7, or 6
or 7, Please refer to your syllabus
to get more details about this presentation's requirements.
You should also have made or be making final decisions
on what topic to frame your final paper on so that at the
end of Module 8 ,you'll be able to turn it in timely.
Again, you can obtain more details from the syllabus.
I look forward to receiving your presentations this week,