Renewal and revival in an eastern orthodox youth movement in comparison with the Sunni Al-Jamā‘a Al-Islāmiyya, 1898-1975

Kasrine El-Halabi, Elias (2012). Renewal and revival in an eastern orthodox youth movement in comparison with the Sunni Al-Jamā‘a Al-Islāmiyya, 1898-1975. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

This research is a comparative study between the Orthodox Youth Movement and Al-Jamā‘a Al-Islāmiyya. This research focuses on analyzing the evolution of the religious awareness processes that were triggered between 1898 and 1975 in the Sunni and Orthodox communities in Lebanon. This research examines: why the selected communities moved from Reform (Iṣlāḥ) to Revivalism (Iḥyā’) in the 1940s and the characteristic features of the Orthodox and Sunni revivalisms as exemplified by the Orthodox Youth Movement and Al-Jamā‘a Al-Islāmiyya. The methodology of this research takes this as an axiom and analyzes it to prove its validity then distills the constituting elements of their revivalisms. When comparing the components of revivalism present in the concepts of Iṣlāḥ of both organizations, there were overlaps as well as divergences. The commonalities observed form a preliminary template of revivalist behaviors exhibited by both movements. This template, with further study, may well be used to predict current and future revivalist behaviors. The 1967 crises in Palestine provided the opportunity to test the revivalist components because they were visible and shaped the way this issue was perceived and reacted upon by both movements.

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Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)

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Doctorates > Ph.D.

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