Itzchak Weismann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1402783 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Itzchak Weismann |
| NOMBRES | Itzchak |
| APELLIDO | Weismann |
| FIRMA | WEISMANN I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1888-8784 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Reflections on the Sources of the Contemporary Islamic Revival
The groups and movements that comprise the Islamic revival of the past half century share an ideology of return to the origins of the faith and strictly following the scriptures. They are habitually divided into Islamist activists, who seek involvement in the political arena; Salafi purists, who censure “deviations” from “true” Islam; and Traditionalist ʽulama, who uphold the living legal, theological, and Sufi tradition. This article offers some…
The Controversy over the Law Schools (lā madhhabiyya) in Twentieth-Century Syria
The validity of the established schools of law (sing. madhhab ) is a major bone of contention between contemporary Salafis and Traditionalists. The controversy reached its peak around 1970 in a famous exchange between Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, who called for direct reliance on authenticated hadith, and Muḥammad Saʽīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī, who favored the jurists’ legal expertise. In this essay, I chart the course of the lā madhhabiyya debate in Syria by…
Muḥammad Bahjat al-Bīṭār and the Decline of Modernist Salafism in Twentieth-Century Syria
The Salafī version of the Islamic Modernist trend emerged in the late nineteenth century among middle-ranked ulema-cum-intellectuals in the major Arab urban centres of the Ottoman Empire. Modernist Salafīs strove to strike a balance between modernization along Western lines and an authenticity based on the model of the pious ancestors (al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ). They differed from other early modernists such as the Young Ottomans and the celebrated Jamā…
Between daʿwa and Dialogue
Muslim engagement in interfaith and intercultural dialogue began in earnest after the turn of the twenty-first century in response to the rise of global jihad. Both dialogue and jihad are outgrowths of daʿwa, the call or mission of Islam, the principal mode of modern Islamic activism. The foundations were laid in the later part of the twentieth century by Muslim intellectual-activists living in non-Muslim environments, who played a special role i…
Salafism in Jordan
A Perverted Balance
This article argues that there are structural affinities and continuities between the late nineteenth-century modernist reformers and today's quietist, political, and jihādī Salafī factions. Salafism refers to the basic theological-ideological formation that postulates a return to pristine Islam to overcome tradition and bring regeneration. The Salafī balance between authenticity and modernization promoted by enlightened religious intellectuals i…
Neither Muslim nor Other
Secular Muslims constitute a significant group within the Muslim population of the UK, though under the prevalent multicultural policies their voice is often ignored. This article introduces some of the more outspoken secular, ex-Muslim, and atheist British Muslims and analyses their positions toward major issues that preoccupy the Muslim community and society at large. The secularists are highly critical of multiculturalism for creating mutually…
Framing a Modern Umma
This article’s point of departure is that da‘wa – the preaching or call to Islam – rather than jihad constitutes the backbone of modern organized Islamic action. The Society of the Muslim Brothers made it the essence of its mission since its foundation in 1928, turning its main thrust inwards, toward the Muslims themselves. Focusing on its processes of framing within the social movement theory approach, the essay analyzes three generations of Mus…
Die Salafiyya im 19. Jahrhundert als Vorläufer des modernen Salafismus
Modernity from Within
Islamic fundamentalism is a product of modernity. Its constitution as the hegemonic discourse of modern Islam was accomplished in the course of the twentieth century over against two Others: the external Other of the West and the internal Other of tradition, especially its mystical aspect – Sufism. The article claims, however, that the fundamentalists' critique of Sufism as backward, superstitious, and apolitical involved the collective forgettin…
Democratic Fundamentalism? The Practice and Discourse of the Muslim Brothers Movement in Syria
Genealogies of Fundamentalism
The Salafiyya represents an early phase in the formation of the modern trend of Islamic fundamentalism. The rise of the Salafiyya to public awareness is generally associated with the name of Rashid
Sufi Fundamentalism Between India and the Middle East
The Naqshbandiyya
The Naqshbandiyya is one of the most widespread and influential Sufi orders in the Muslim world. Having its origins in the Great Masters tradition of Central Asia almost a millennium ago, it played a significant role in the pre-modern history of the Indian subcontinent and the Ottoman Empire, and is still spreading today. This volume seeks to present a broad picture of the evolution of the ideas and organizational forms of the Naqshbandi order th…
Abū l-hudā l-Sayyādī and the Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 Arabica , tome LIV,4 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Thomas Eich, Ab ù l-Hud à l- Í ayy à d ì : Eine Studie zur Instrumentalisierung su fi scher Netzwerke und genealogishcer Kontroversen in spätosmanischen Reich , Berlin, 2003. NOTES ET DOCUMENTS AB Ù L-HUD À L- Í AYY À D Ì AND THE RISE OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM by ITZCHAK WEISMANN University of Haifa Late Ottoman history was a seminal period in the for…
Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration
The late Ottoman period was one of enormous change. This book focuses on the evolution of Ottoman reform as it was perceived, and negotiated, from the perspectives of the capital Istanbul and of the Arab provinces of Syria, including Palestine. It also examines the close interrelationship between the symbolic and actual measures introduced by the state, particularly since the Tanzimat era (1839-76), and the role of Islam as its foundational ethos…
The Invention of a Populist Islamic Leader
Badr al-Dìn al-Hasanì (1850-1935) appears in the biographical literature of Syria as its foremost man of religion from World War I to the Great Revolt. This article examines his life and work within the context of the gradual shift of the Syrian ulema of his day from the older "politics of notables" to a new strategy of popular mobilization. It argues that Badr al-Dìn's image was "invented" during the early Mandate by disciples in search of legit…
The Politics of Popular Religion
With the advent of the 20th century, Sufism found itself under increasing attack in many parts of the Muslim world. In previous centuries, mystical movements had played a prominent role in the struggle for the revival of Islam and occasionally, where governments were weak or nonexistent, also in actual resistance to European encroachment. In the wake of the increasing consolidation of the state and the spread of Western rationalism, however, Sufi…
Sufi Brotherhoods in Syria and Israel
The Forgotten Shaykh
Taste of Modernity
Modernization in the Muslim world was determined by the two interrelated processes of indigenous state formation and European economic penetration. These drove governments to enlist the orthodox and the masses in support of the consolidation of their central authority, and religious reformers to seek, partly through Western devices, checks on their autocracy. Concentrating on late-Ottoman Damascus, a focal point in the modernization of Islam in t…
Taste of Modernity
Modernization in the Muslim world was determined by the two interrelated processes of indigenous state formation and European economic penetration. These drove governments to enlist the orthodox and the masses in support of the consolidation of their central authority, and religious reformers to seek, partly through Western devices, checks on their autocracy. Concentrating on late-Ottoman Damascus, a focal point in the modernization of Islam in t…
Between Sūfī Reformism and Modernist Rationalism-a Reappraisal of the Origins of the Salafiyya From the Damascene Angle
Sa'id Hawwa and Islamic Revivalism in Ba'thist Syria
La pensee revivaliste de Sa'id Hawwa fait partie de la sahwa, le reveil islamique ne sous les regimes militaires autoritaires apres les independances. Il diagnostique un etat deplorable de l'islam et la necessite de renforcer la foi des musulmans en face des tendances heretiques de l'etat moderne. Il rejette cependant les formulations radicales de ce reveil incarnees par le concept de jahiliyya de Qutb preferant le concept plus flexible de ridda.…
Sa'id Hawwa
En 1963, le parti Baas prend le pouvoir en Syrie. Aussitot, une opposition prend corps et ne cesse de combattre le regime desacralisant et socialisant des dirigeants. Dans ce conflit, les freres musulmans jouent un role principal en tant que porte-parole des griefs economiques et religieux. Leur principale figure pendant plus de 20 ans a ete Sa'id Hawwa, ideologue violent et intransigeant. L'article presente les fondements des ses convictions rel…
The Politics of Popular Religion
With the advent of the 20th century, Sufism found itself under increasing attack in many parts of the Muslim world. In previous centuries, mystical movements had played a prominent role in the struggle for the revival of Islam and occasionally, where governments were weak or nonexistent, also in actual resistance to European encroachment. In the wake of the increasing consolidation of the state and the spread of Western rationalism, however, Sufi…
Sa'id Hawwa
En 1963, le parti Baas prend le pouvoir en Syrie. Aussitot, une opposition prend corps et ne cesse de combattre le regime desacralisant et socialisant des dirigeants. Dans ce conflit, les freres musulmans jouent un role principal en tant que porte-parole des griefs economiques et religieux. Leur principale figure pendant plus de 20 ans a ete Sa'id Hawwa, ideologue violent et intransigeant. L'article presente les fondements des ses convictions rel…
Between Sūfī Reformism and Modernist Rationalism-a Reappraisal of the Origins of the Salafiyya From the Damascene Angle
Neither Muslim nor Other
Secular Muslims constitute a significant group within the Muslim population of the UK, though under the prevalent multicultural policies their voice is often ignored. This article introduces some of the more outspoken secular, ex-Muslim, and atheist British Muslims and analyses their positions toward major issues that preoccupy the Muslim community and society at large. The secularists are highly critical of multiculturalism for creating mutually…
Sa'id Hawwa and Islamic Revivalism in Ba'thist Syria
La pensee revivaliste de Sa'id Hawwa fait partie de la sahwa, le reveil islamique ne sous les regimes militaires autoritaires apres les independances. Il diagnostique un etat deplorable de l'islam et la necessite de renforcer la foi des musulmans en face des tendances heretiques de l'etat moderne. Il rejette cependant les formulations radicales de ce reveil incarnees par le concept de jahiliyya de Qutb preferant le concept plus flexible de ridda.…
Framing a Modern Umma
This article’s point of departure is that da‘wa – the preaching or call to Islam – rather than jihad constitutes the backbone of modern organized Islamic action. The Society of the Muslim Brothers made it the essence of its mission since its foundation in 1928, turning its main thrust inwards, toward the Muslims themselves. Focusing on its processes of framing within the social movement theory approach, the essay analyzes three generations of Mus…
Genealogies of Fundamentalism
The Salafiyya represents an early phase in the formation of the modern trend of Islamic fundamentalism. The rise of the Salafiyya to public awareness is generally associated with the name of Rashid
The Controversy over the Law Schools (lā madhhabiyya) in Twentieth-Century Syria
The validity of the established schools of law (sing. madhhab ) is a major bone of contention between contemporary Salafis and Traditionalists. The controversy reached its peak around 1970 in a famous exchange between Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, who called for direct reliance on authenticated hadith, and Muḥammad Saʽīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī, who favored the jurists’ legal expertise. In this essay, I chart the course of the lā madhhabiyya debate in Syria by…
A Perverted Balance
This article argues that there are structural affinities and continuities between the late nineteenth-century modernist reformers and today's quietist, political, and jihādī Salafī factions. Salafism refers to the basic theological-ideological formation that postulates a return to pristine Islam to overcome tradition and bring regeneration. The Salafī balance between authenticity and modernization promoted by enlightened religious intellectuals i…
Sufi Brotherhoods in Syria and Israel
The Forgotten Shaykh
Sa'id Hawwa
En 1963, le parti Baas prend le pouvoir en Syrie. Aussitot, une opposition prend corps et ne cesse de combattre le regime desacralisant et socialisant des dirigeants. Dans ce conflit, les freres musulmans jouent un role principal en tant que porte-parole des griefs economiques et religieux. Leur principale figure pendant plus de 20 ans a ete Sa'id Hawwa, ideologue violent et intransigeant. L'article presente les fondements des ses convictions rel…
Sa'id Hawwa and Islamic Revivalism in Ba'thist Syria
La pensee revivaliste de Sa'id Hawwa fait partie de la sahwa, le reveil islamique ne sous les regimes militaires autoritaires apres les independances. Il diagnostique un etat deplorable de l'islam et la necessite de renforcer la foi des musulmans en face des tendances heretiques de l'etat moderne. Il rejette cependant les formulations radicales de ce reveil incarnees par le concept de jahiliyya de Qutb preferant le concept plus flexible de ridda.…
Taste of Modernity
Modernization in the Muslim world was determined by the two interrelated processes of indigenous state formation and European economic penetration. These drove governments to enlist the orthodox and the masses in support of the consolidation of their central authority, and religious reformers to seek, partly through Western devices, checks on their autocracy. Concentrating on late-Ottoman Damascus, a focal point in the modernization of Islam in t…
Between Sūfī Reformism and Modernist Rationalism-a Reappraisal of the Origins of the Salafiyya From the Damascene Angle
Taste of Modernity
Modernization in the Muslim world was determined by the two interrelated processes of indigenous state formation and European economic penetration. These drove governments to enlist the orthodox and the masses in support of the consolidation of their central authority, and religious reformers to seek, partly through Western devices, checks on their autocracy. Concentrating on late-Ottoman Damascus, a focal point in the modernization of Islam in t…
The Forgotten Shaykh
Sufi Brotherhoods in Syria and Israel
Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration
The late Ottoman period was one of enormous change. This book focuses on the evolution of Ottoman reform as it was perceived, and negotiated, from the perspectives of the capital Istanbul and of the Arab provinces of Syria, including Palestine. It also examines the close interrelationship between the symbolic and actual measures introduced by the state, particularly since the Tanzimat era (1839-76), and the role of Islam as its foundational ethos…
The Invention of a Populist Islamic Leader
Badr al-Dìn al-Hasanì (1850-1935) appears in the biographical literature of Syria as its foremost man of religion from World War I to the Great Revolt. This article examines his life and work within the context of the gradual shift of the Syrian ulema of his day from the older "politics of notables" to a new strategy of popular mobilization. It argues that Badr al-Dìn's image was "invented" during the early Mandate by disciples in search of legit…
The Politics of Popular Religion
With the advent of the 20th century, Sufism found itself under increasing attack in many parts of the Muslim world. In previous centuries, mystical movements had played a prominent role in the struggle for the revival of Islam and occasionally, where governments were weak or nonexistent, also in actual resistance to European encroachment. In the wake of the increasing consolidation of the state and the spread of Western rationalism, however, Sufi…
Sufi Fundamentalism Between India and the Middle East
The Naqshbandiyya
The Naqshbandiyya is one of the most widespread and influential Sufi orders in the Muslim world. Having its origins in the Great Masters tradition of Central Asia almost a millennium ago, it played a significant role in the pre-modern history of the Indian subcontinent and the Ottoman Empire, and is still spreading today. This volume seeks to present a broad picture of the evolution of the ideas and organizational forms of the Naqshbandi order th…
Abū l-hudā l-Sayyādī and the Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 Arabica , tome LIV,4 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Thomas Eich, Ab ù l-Hud à l- Í ayy à d ì : Eine Studie zur Instrumentalisierung su fi scher Netzwerke und genealogishcer Kontroversen in spätosmanischen Reich , Berlin, 2003. NOTES ET DOCUMENTS AB Ù L-HUD À L- Í AYY À D Ì AND THE RISE OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM by ITZCHAK WEISMANN University of Haifa Late Ottoman history was a seminal period in the for…
Genealogies of Fundamentalism
The Salafiyya represents an early phase in the formation of the modern trend of Islamic fundamentalism. The rise of the Salafiyya to public awareness is generally associated with the name of Rashid
Democratic Fundamentalism? The Practice and Discourse of the Muslim Brothers Movement in Syria
Modernity from Within
Islamic fundamentalism is a product of modernity. Its constitution as the hegemonic discourse of modern Islam was accomplished in the course of the twentieth century over against two Others: the external Other of the West and the internal Other of tradition, especially its mystical aspect – Sufism. The article claims, however, that the fundamentalists' critique of Sufism as backward, superstitious, and apolitical involved the collective forgettin…
Die Salafiyya im 19. Jahrhundert als Vorläufer des modernen Salafismus
Framing a Modern Umma
This article’s point of departure is that da‘wa – the preaching or call to Islam – rather than jihad constitutes the backbone of modern organized Islamic action. The Society of the Muslim Brothers made it the essence of its mission since its foundation in 1928, turning its main thrust inwards, toward the Muslims themselves. Focusing on its processes of framing within the social movement theory approach, the essay analyzes three generations of Mus…
Neither Muslim nor Other
Secular Muslims constitute a significant group within the Muslim population of the UK, though under the prevalent multicultural policies their voice is often ignored. This article introduces some of the more outspoken secular, ex-Muslim, and atheist British Muslims and analyses their positions toward major issues that preoccupy the Muslim community and society at large. The secularists are highly critical of multiculturalism for creating mutually…
A Perverted Balance
This article argues that there are structural affinities and continuities between the late nineteenth-century modernist reformers and today's quietist, political, and jihādī Salafī factions. Salafism refers to the basic theological-ideological formation that postulates a return to pristine Islam to overcome tradition and bring regeneration. The Salafī balance between authenticity and modernization promoted by enlightened religious intellectuals i…
Salafism in Jordan
Between daʿwa and Dialogue
Muslim engagement in interfaith and intercultural dialogue began in earnest after the turn of the twenty-first century in response to the rise of global jihad. Both dialogue and jihad are outgrowths of daʿwa, the call or mission of Islam, the principal mode of modern Islamic activism. The foundations were laid in the later part of the twentieth century by Muslim intellectual-activists living in non-Muslim environments, who played a special role i…
Muḥammad Bahjat al-Bīṭār and the Decline of Modernist Salafism in Twentieth-Century Syria
The Salafī version of the Islamic Modernist trend emerged in the late nineteenth century among middle-ranked ulema-cum-intellectuals in the major Arab urban centres of the Ottoman Empire. Modernist Salafīs strove to strike a balance between modernization along Western lines and an authenticity based on the model of the pious ancestors (al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ). They differed from other early modernists such as the Young Ottomans and the celebrated Jamā…
Reflections on the Sources of the Contemporary Islamic Revival
The groups and movements that comprise the Islamic revival of the past half century share an ideology of return to the origins of the faith and strictly following the scriptures. They are habitually divided into Islamist activists, who seek involvement in the political arena; Salafi purists, who censure “deviations” from “true” Islam; and Traditionalist ʽulama, who uphold the living legal, theological, and Sufi tradition. This article offers some…
The Controversy over the Law Schools (lā madhhabiyya) in Twentieth-Century Syria
The validity of the established schools of law (sing. madhhab ) is a major bone of contention between contemporary Salafis and Traditionalists. The controversy reached its peak around 1970 in a famous exchange between Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, who called for direct reliance on authenticated hadith, and Muḥammad Saʽīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī, who favored the jurists’ legal expertise. In this essay, I chart the course of the lā madhhabiyya debate in Syria by…
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