The Islamic liberation theology of Ali Shari'ati: religion and revolution

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dc.contributor.authorJeenah, Shir'a
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-30T20:56:55Z
dc.date.available2022-03-30T20:56:55Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionA research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Political Studies) to the Faculty of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe emergence of Islam 1438 years ago in Makkah resulted in massive shifts in power dynamics and in social relations and ways of living within, firstly, the Arabian Peninsula and, within a couple of centuries, in most of West Asia and large parts of Europe. The Islamic leader, Prophet Muhammad, following with experience of the Judaic and Christian traditions, delivered the message of a religion that challenged the status quo and advocated a new system of social, political and economic relations, one based on the principles of justice and equality. Almost fifteen centuries later, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, when more than twenty percent of the world's population is Muslim, millions of Muslims around the world continue to rely on the faith as an inspiration for their own struggles and for their solidarity with the struggles of oppressed peoples across the globe. In a context where discourses on decolonisation have become a major focus in political science, especially at universities, there has been a shift in discussions on struggle and revolution. A concerted effort has been made to tend away from the reliance on Western epistemologies and to throw the spotlight on thinking from and about the global South in an attempt at embarking on a process of 'decolonising' knowledge, academic spaces and society at large. In an attempt to expand beyond just Marxist analyses, much emphasis in decoloniality discussions has been placed on thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Leopold Senghor, Che Guevara, those within the Indian subaltern tradition and others from the Global South. However, following the modernist (and postmodernist) tradition, there seems to be resistance among many such thinkers, who have enjoyed relative popularity within the academy, to afford any religious - including Islamic - strands of thought a seat at the decolonial intellectual table, though there are exceptions. This research report will make the case for further extending this privilege to Islamic thinkers through a presentation of the work of the Iranian revolutionary intellectual Ali Shari'ati.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianTL (2022)en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32840
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Social Sciencesen_ZA
dc.titleThe Islamic liberation theology of Ali Shari'ati: religion and revolutionen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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