Hardly Wahhabi, and even farther from being Islamic, ISIL/ISIS draws from Jamaat-e-Islami party writings, that fused Islamic theological ideas with concepts of the state and citizenship taken from western political history and culture. From the Article: When he made his speech in July at Mosul’s Great Mosque declaring the creation of an Islamic state with himself as its caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi quoted at length from the Indian/Pakistani thinker Abul A’la Maududi, the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in 1941 and originator of the contemporary term Islamic state. Maududi’s Islamic state is profoundly shaped by western ideas and concepts. He takes a belief shared between Islam and other religious traditions, namely that God alone is the ultimate judge of a person, and transforms this – reframing God’s possession of judgment into possession of, and ultimately monopoly of, “sovereignty”. ...
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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