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  2. Ideology of the Islamic State - Wikipedia

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    One difference between ISIL and other Islamist and jihadist movements, including al-Qaeda, is the group's emphasis on eschatology and apocalypticism—that is, a belief that the final Day of Judgment by God are near, and specifically, that the arrival of one known as Imam Mahdi is close at hand. It has been described as "a major part" of ISIL's ...

  3. Islamism - Wikipedia

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    a political ideology which seeks to enforce Islamic precepts and norms as generally applicable rules for people's conduct; and whose adherents seek a state based on Islamic values and laws (sharia) and rejecting Western guiding principles, such as freedom of opinion, freedom of the press, artistic freedom and freedom of religion (Thomas Volk); [48]

  4. History of Islamism - Wikipedia

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    This shocked the Sunni clerical world, and some felt the need to present Islam not as a traditional religion but as an innovative socio-political ideology of a modern nation-state. [13] The success of the October Revolution , also known as the Bolshevik Revolution , in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin in 1917 was a source of ...

  5. Schools of Islamic theology - Wikipedia

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    ʿIlm al-Kalām (Arabic: علم الكلام, literally "science of discourse"), [5] usually foreshortened to kalām and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is a rational undertaking born out of the need to establish and defend the tenets of Islamic faith against doubters and detractors. [27]

  6. Political aspects of Islam - Wikipedia

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    Between the 1950s and the 1960s, the predominant ideology within the Arab world was pan-Arabism, which de-emphasized religion and encouraged the creation of socialist, secular states based on Arab nationalist ideologies such as Nasserism and Baathism rather than Islam. [113]

  7. Islamic schools and branches - Wikipedia

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    Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabic: حزب التحرير) (Translation: Party of Liberation) is an international, pan-Islamist political organization which describes its ideology as Islam, and its aim the re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah to resume Islamic ways of life in the Muslim world.

  8. Kalam - Wikipedia

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    Ilm al-kalam [a] or ilm al-lahut, [b] often shortened to kalam, is the scholastic, speculative, or rational study of Islamic theology (). [2] It can also be defined as the science that studies the fundamental doctrines of Islamic faith (usul al-din), proving their validity, or refuting doubts regarding them. [3]

  9. Islamic fundamentalism - Wikipedia

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    Differences between Christian fundamentalism and Islamic fundamentalism include (according to Bernard Lewis): [21] "In western usage, these words [Revivalism and Fundamentalism] have a rather specific connotation; they suggest a certain type of religiosity- emotional indeed sentimental; not intellectual, perhaps even anti-intellectual; and in ...