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hamioz@yahoo.com
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Course
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Kars, TURKEY
hamioz@yahoo.com
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State and religion (2) 2020 (1)
1. Relationship with the state and
religion in the three monotheist
religions – the Judaism, the
Christianity and the Islam (2)
Prof. Dr. Bordás Mária
National University of Public Governance
and International Studies
2020.
6. Mandatory Religious Rules
Prayer: five times a day, Friday in the mosque (strict rituals) –
muezzin from the minaret
Imam: conducts the prayers and makes political statements
Mosque: the scene of religious, educational, social function -
political debates
Month of Ramadan: fasting, daytime not to eat food and
drink - meditation - holiday
Zakat: tax paid to the poor - social function
7. Jihad
Effort to achieve a common goal:
• combating inner temptation
• an external struggle against the enemy (contrary
interpretations: against the unbelievers, against the West,
against Israel, not in the Holy Land)
8. Jihad
• Jihad does not mean “holy war”
• Literally, jihad means to strive, struggle, exert, effort.
• Concept includes struggle against evil inclinations
within oneself, struggle to improve quality of life in
society, struggle in the battlefield for self defense or
fighting against tyranny or oppression
• There is no such thing as “holy war” in Islam, but it is
the frequent repetition in the West that many people
accept it as if it were a fact
11. Sources of Saria (Islamic Law)
- Quran (recorded in Mohammed's Life): consists of chapters that
contain religious poems, myths, visions, prophecies, moral and
legal rules, behaviors, legends
It remained in original form, its teachings are divine revelations,
so they are bound to this day – people cannot make rules!
Hadis: gathered souls (sunna) - (containing habits and oral
statements of Mohammed by oral tradition) - to apply if the Quran
does not contain a provision for a life situation - only religious
leaders have the right to interpret - idzstihah: self-centered
thinking based on human reason
Idum: if religious leaders agree on a matter (600,000 sunnas -
careful selection)
Interpretation of religious leaders: Islam has become a united
system
12. Characteristics of Saria (Islamic law)
Provides comprehensive regulations:
• Marriage: four wives - equal treatment
• Women: Not Equal to Men (divorce, marriage law,
work, voting rights, learning)
• Required clothing (mainly for women)
• Strict behavior and eating rules: at community places,
in marriage - forbidden to drink alcohol, adultery,
blasphemy
• Branches of law: Criminal law, civil law, commercial law,
family law
• Cruel punishments: stoning, flogging, lashing snapping,
behaeding, amputation
17. The role of religious leaders and the state
Muhammed: a military, state and religious leader
(tradition) - charismatic leaders (Nasser, Szaddam
Husszein, Kadhafi, Khomeini, Bin Laden)
19. The Islamic State (Caliphate) after
Mohamed's death
Conquests:
Haraj: tax on conquered territories - economic
recovery - developed state (caliphate) and public
administration
• Maintaining tribal-clan relations
• Feudal land ownership (caliph gave lands for
military service or members of his family) Allah is
the owner of the Holy Lands
• Survival of slavery
• Religious and secular leadership devided
20. The Role of the Caliph in the
Islamic Caliphate
Caliph:
- Military leader
- Head of bureaucracy
- Jurisdiction
His election: (from the clan of Mohamed after his death)
- By the public (the clan discusses for a long time)
- Who is the most respected
Sura Council:
- Tribal-clan leaders
- Their advice is obligatory to the caliph
Tribes-clans:
Local administration
21. Religious Leadership after the death
of Mohamed
Religious leadership: Muslim theorists who, for decades,
have achieved outstanding performance on a scientific
and educational level
• Religious scholars (ulemá)
• Religious law scholars (fukahá)
Their task: the interpretation of Islam - the legitimacy of
political power (Islamic State - al-Baghdadi)
To issue fatwa: the political statements of religious
leaders in a situation – interpretation of Islam,
controversial, such as Bin Laden, Ali Syistani's Great
Ayatollah)
22. Breaking in Islam
Problem: Mohamed did not have his successor
• After his death, the election of 4 caliphs belonging to the
family of Mohammed, and who enjoyed the highest
authority and respect
- Ali: Fourth Caliph, Mohamed's cousin and son in law
- Mujawi: A member of the Omajjad dynasty who demanded
the Caliphate - armed struggle - negotiating judges to
decide
- Kharijites: They disagreed with negotiating judges - armed
struggle - killed Ali - his son, Husayn also died at the Battle
of Kerbal in 680 - Mohamed's blood line was interrupted
- 8th Century: breaking among Muslims - Shiites and Sunnis -
Reasons: Leaders' Choice
23.
24. 3 kinds of Islamic States
Umma model (Khariji)
Caliphate (Sunni)
Imamat, monist (Shia)
25.
26. Early Islamic States
- Kharijites: (in the territory of Oman) Umma
The caliph must be chosen directly by the people: the
simple son of the people may be, if he is prominent,
honest and puritan
- Sunnis: Caliphate -Caliph is elected from the caliph’s
dynasty – receive the political power from Allah –
implements the Quran – Supervised by the religious
leaders - Sura council
- Shia (in the territory of Iran) Imamat: Caliph can only
come from Mohamed's blood line - the secretary of
secret knowledge, infaillible - religious and secular leader
(Mahdi: Savior)
27. Shia Crescent
Sunni Shia conflict: rivalry between Mesopotamia and Persia
- Determining factor of the Middle East politics (Iraq, Syria,
Yemen)
- Shia crescent: Bahrein- Iran – South Iraq – Syria – Libanon -
Yemen
28.
29. Period of Colonization
Great Britain: around the Arabian Penninsula, Egypt, Sudan,
Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan
France: Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, Tunisia, Marocco
Italy: Lybia
No colony: Iran, Saud-Arabia, Afghanistan, Osman Empire
(Turkey)
- Combining tribal, ancient slavery, and feudal relations – no
capitalism
- Lack of territoriality and sovereignty – no vestfalia states
- There is no nationalism, secularization, political pluralism
(community principles – umma:islam community –
tribal,clan,family identity)
- Forced Western state organization model and artificial
boundaries:
32. The Colonial States
In the first part of the 20th century:
- Panislamism: united state in the Islamic world
- Panarabism: unites Arabic states (nationalism)
- Capitalism: large estates in the agrciculture – urbanism
– business class – poor class (peasants, workers) –
small middle class
- Dual system: Western-type state and laws– Quran
schools, saria, tribe-clas relations in local
administration and positions in public administration
- Expectations: independency and democracy (against
colonization and autocracy)