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Rashid Rida and 19th Century Islamic Modernization
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 1, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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end of the 19th century
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humans were becoming                  subjects
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becoming Japanese
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becoming                   
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becoming German
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these were all states and nations that                  existed a century earlier
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the national frame gave people a sense of new identity for defining their membership in                    communities
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those who were              of a state
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didn't have a polity that they could connect their imaginations to
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the Jews
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the Gypsies
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the                   
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those who lived in a state where the ruling state was of a different nationality
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Arabs under                rule
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the many African-Americans who began to feel after the Civil War was perhaps the United States was unable to deliver on the promises of their declaration of their                         
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many began to dream and yearn for a return to              itself
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people for whom a state was not there to create a nation
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some political systems functioned more like                  that transcended global boundaries
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associated statehood with land which did not yet exist for them
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American identity emerges very tied up with territory
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also                      and Russians
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what happens to those who don't have access to a                  the way the Americans, the Russians and the Argentines had
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the role of books and            was important
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promulgated a                 idea of a community that didn't exist
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                           played an important function
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the                Empire
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the Turks and Arabs were the inheritors of an older political structure
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an Islamic empire
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many different peoples, languages, and faiths
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nationals and Turks were in the midst of political                   
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               expansion from the north
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fueled regional nationalisms
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after the opening of the Suez Canal, the Islamic states were feeling closed in
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increasingly encircled by expanding                    empires
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increase of debate and intellectual life in Islamic worlds
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from India to West Africa
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from Delhi to           
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Muslim intellectuals discussed how to cope with the shrinking world
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Rashid Rida (1865-1935)
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early Islamic reformer
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his ideas would later influence 20th-century Islamist thinkers in developing a political philosophy of an the Islamic state
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was keen to                    law, to update it
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to make it compatible of the new global order
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criticized the old ruling               
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criticized the traditional the priesthoods for holding Islam back
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represented nationalism and modernization in the Islamic world
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how to adapt Islam to this new              order
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take this sacred tradition of law making and apply it to new,                structures
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adapted Islamic law for new nations
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if Islamic states could imagine themselves as modern states, they could incorporate                and modernization
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this was tied to land and ethnic boundaries
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wanted to treat the Islamic world as an Islamic version of Europe
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divided up into nation states
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                 University created
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center for new contemplation for how to modernize Islam
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1857              Scientific Society
Columbus and the New World
1500-1700 Indian Ocean Trading system
Da Gama, Pepper and World History
Portuguese Indian Ocean Empire
16th Century Colonialism Fueling European Violence
Global Food: European Sugar, Caribbean Plantations, African Slaves
16th and 17th Century Merchant Trading Companies
17th Century Interdependence of Trade and Investment
Francis Drake and Mercantilist Wars
The Apex and Erosion of the Mughal Empire
The Treaty of Westphalia as the Hinge of Modern History
The Influence of Silver on the Ming Dynasty
Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
18th China Resurgent as Qing Dynasty
18th Century Tea Trade, Leisure Time, and the Spread of Knowledge
Cook and Clive: Discoverers, Collectors and Conquerors of the Enlightenment
Strains on the Universality of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment, Empire, and Colonization: Burke vs. Hastings
Enlightenment or Empire
18th Century Land Grabbing
The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
The Seven Years' War and Colonial Revolutions
Napoleon, Spain, the Colonies, and Imperial Crises
Human Rights and the Meaning of Membership within Societies
Napoleon, New Nations, and Total War
The Ottoman Empire's 19th Century Tanzimat Reform
The Early 19th Century Market Revolution
The Global Upheavals of the Mid-19th Century
The Train, the Rifle, and the Industrial Revolution
Transition in India: Last of the Mughals
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Its Ramifications
Darwin's Effect on 19th Century Ideas
Factors Which Led to the Solidifying of Nation States
1868 Japan: The Meiji Restoration
1871: Germany Becomes a Nation
North American Nation-Building
19th Century Changing Concepts of Labor
The Benefits of Comparative Advantage
Migration after the Age of Revolutions
Creating 19th Century Global Free Trade
The Expanding 19th Century Capitalist System
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Closing of the American Frontier
Africa's Second Imperial Wave
Early 20th Century American Imperialism
1894-1905: Japan's Imperial Wave in Asia
Rashid Rida and 19th Century Islamic Modernization
19th Century Pan-Islam and Zionism Movements
19th Century Global Export-Led Growth
Indian Wars and Mass Slaughter of Bison
The Suez Canal's Effect on the Malayan Tiger
1890-1914: Savage Wars of Peace
1900-1909: Russian and Turkish Dynasties
1899-1911 The End of the Qing Dynasty
The 1910 Mexican Revolution
The Panic of 1907
Turn-of-the-Century Civilization and its Discontents
20th Century Questioning of Reason
Late 19th Century Anxieties of Race
The First World War
The End of WWI and the Attempt at Global Peace
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The Wilson-Lenin Moment
1919 Self-Determination Movements in India
Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
1929 Economic Collapse
Changes in Capitalism between the Wars