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		He declared that the degeneration of humanity in the collectivist governments, the inequity endured by the people ruled by capitalism and colonialism was the effect of this resistance to the command of God, the denial of the distinction that God bestowed upon humanity.
		Qutub argued that the present ignorance was not found in the elementary and crude form of the early jahiliyya but took the fashion of declaring that the liberty to establish values, to prescribe precepts of collective conduct, and to embrace any lifestyle rests with the people themselves without any consideration of God's decrees.
		The solution suggested by Qutub for jahiliyya problem was the establishment of a new elite, a saleh jamaat (righteo us group), among the Muslims that would struggle against the new jahiliyya as the Prophet had once did against the old jahiliyya.
	www.ghazali.net /book2/chapter8/body_chapter8.html (1741 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		Jahiliyya, the term applied to Arabia before the emergence of Islam, means hopeless ignorance.
		Pre-Islamic Arabia was the Jahiliyya because it was rife with senseless and unceasing violence and brutality until the softening influence of Islam.
		In fact, the Jahiliyya was hardly different from the unceasing tribal violence and cruelty of old Germanic tribes before the mitigating influence of Christianity.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=11534 (901 words)

	Qutbism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main tenet of Qutbist ideology is the belief that almost all of Islam is heading into the era of pre-Islamic Arabs or Jahiliyya, and must be reconquered.
		Qutb freely uses the word "Jahiliyya" repeatedly in Milestones to refer to Arabs who have gone backwards in their reasoning to the pre-Islamic era.
		Thus, the word Qutbee was first found to be formed by Saudi Arabian Salafis and Wahhabis in referring to the Muslim Brotherhood and their sympathizers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qutbism (653 words)

	Books : Milestones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jahiliyya, as used in the traditional Islamic sense suggests ignorence in the ways of God.
		Jahiliyya for Qutb is the sovereignty of man over man. Socio-political orders where men have power over other men, to institute legislation and determine principles of right and wrong conduct.
		Qutb, by redefining jahiliyya to encompass modern secular systems of political organization, is basically decreeing that all existing systems are unacceptable and even antithetical to the spirit of Islam.
	arabiadirectory.com /Reviews/ItemId/0892590769/ReviewPage/2 (1130 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The War on Terror: Four Key Concepts by Mark Goldblatt
		Qutb’s signature contribution to Islamic thought was to update the concept of jahiliyya.
		For centuries, jahiliyya had signified the degenerate state of the world prior to the advent of Islam; according to Qutb, however, jahiliyya should be understood as the underlying spirit of decadence and corruption which exists in all times and all places--and which true Muslims must fight against.
		Jihad is legitimized, in their eyes, as the struggle against jahiliyya.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14582 (2017 words)

	Rina Drory: "The Abbasid Construction of the Jahiliyya"
		Rina Drory: "The Abbasid Construction of the Jahiliyya"
		images of the Jahiliyya past, and what was the nature of their cultural
		guish the diction of Jahiliyya from the diction of Islam [`arafa kalâm ahl al-jâhiliyya min
	www.tau.ac.il /tarbut/rina.drory/abodot/abbasid.htm (5716 words)

	Al-Serat: Imams - Clear and Coherent Policy
		Eventually the Prophet felt that this group was capable of confronting the power of the jahiliyya, and so raised the jihad with the sword, and, after a bitter military struggle, succeeded in founding the Islamic state in Medina.
		Al-Hasan followed in the footsteps of his father in the fight against the power of the Jahiliyya, and against some of the Muslims, whose souls had not been purified by the fear of God, and who were exploiting the economic and political advantages of the Islamic expansion into Syria.
		Similarly they should perform actions which strengthen the social ties of society and establish it firmly and safely, such as obedience to parents and relations, respect towards neighbours, trustworthiness in agreements and contracts, loyalty in their occupations and in their dealings with people and to the country in which they live.
	www.al-islam.org /al-serat/policyclear.htm (1433 words)

	PWHCE Middle East Project: Maulana Maududi Profile
		Jahiliyya had originally meant ignorance, and referred to the pre-Islamic state of pagan ignorance said to prevail in Arabia before the coming of Islam.
		Medieval radical scholar Ibn Taymiyya had modified the understanding of the meaning of jahiliyya by declaring that the King of the Mongols, despite converting to Islam, was jahili because he continued to implement the Yasa code of law, rather than implement Sharia.
		Maududi's "new jahiliyya " theory went much further, proposing that the bulk of Islam had become estranged from the original intentions of Islam, and were therefore apostate.
	www.pwhce.org /maududi.html (814 words)

	Qutbee. Who is Qutbee? What is Qutbee? Where is Qutbee? Definition of Qutbee. Meaning of Qutbee.
		The main tenet of Qutbist ideology is the belief that almost all of Islam is heading into the state of pre-Islamic Arabs or Jahiliyya, and must be reconquered.
		Qutb freely uses the word "Jahiliyya" repeatedly in his book "Milestones", presumably referring to Arabs who have gone backwards in their reasoning to the Pre-Islamic era.
		The word Jahiliyya in Arabic is pre-Islamic Pagan Arabs.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Qutbee (536 words)

	Syed Qutb Muqtedar Khan Islam Islamic movements ikhwan
		He believes that Islamic values and the manner in which they are to be realized (read as were realized by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his glorious companions) both together constitute the faith of Islam.
		A far cry from the perception that a handful of Islamists are out to impose an essentialized shariah on all Muslims and non-Muslims living in Muslim lands.
		The Quran is explicit in postulating Islam as the antithesis of jahiliyya.
	www.ijtihad.org /sq.htm (980 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Chronicles \| Taha Hussein's ordeal
		Taha Hussein's work, by contrast, was the scholastic endeavour of a university professor who sought to apply skepticism to a literary study that had strong religious overtones.
		As this is a crime falling under Articles 30, 139 and 148 of the Penal Code, it is my duty to bring it to your attention and demand an investigation so that the public prosecutor may determine the validity of the allegation and file suit." He appended a copy of Hussein's book with the deposition.
		Lawyers should never be prevented from performing their duties nor should they be considered accomplices in the charges brought against a defendant, it argued.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/535/chrncls.htm (2645 words)

	The islamic fundamentalist view of life as a perennial battle
		Islamists emphasize the battle against jahiliyya, traditionally understood as the pagan state of ignorance in pre-Islamic Arabia, but reinterpreted by Qutb to mean any contemporary system not based on the original holy sources of Quran and Hadith and not operating under Sharia.
		In his view, jahiliyya is not a pre-Islamic historical era of paganism but rather an ever-present condition of denying God's rule, usurping His authority, and living by man-made laws that enslave men to their rulers, engendering oppression.
		Among radicals, jahiliyya, takfir, and jihad, are the concepts used to justify armed resistance and violent takeovers of government from corrupt and apostate regimes as well as indiscriminate acts of terrorism against all perceived enemies using suicide missions as legitimate tools.
	iicas.org /english/enlibrary/libr_19_12_01_is.htm (13657 words)

	BOOK REVIEW: MILESTONES (MA`ALIM FIL TARIQ) BY SAYYID QUTB
		Jahiliyya is not a pre-Islamic historical era of paganism - it is an ever present condition of denying God's rule, usurping His authority, and living by man-made laws that enslave men to their rulers and engender oppression and tyranny.
		Jahiliyya is always evil in whatever form it manifests itself, and it always seeks to crush true Islam.
		Qutb's reinterpretation of jahiliyya, takfir and jihad unsheathed a dangerous weapon that has already claimed tens of thousands of Muslim victims.
	www.angelfire.com /az/rescon/Bkrvqtb.html (1819 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(1) A zamanin jahiliyya, al'umma tana ganin mace a matsayin wata bi-tsami, wani abu na la'ana, matatta-rin muggan ayyukan shaidan, ko kuma sukan kwatanta ta da matsayin wata dabba da aka halicce ta a yanayin dan'adam.
		Muna fatan an fahimci irin bayanin da muka yi dangane da bambancin da ke tsakanin hijabi (kange-wa) irin wadda aka dauka a zamanin jahiliyya danga-ne da mu'amalolin mace, da kuma hijabin da Musu-lunci ya dauka a matsayin garkuwa da zai kare mace daga zalunci da tozarta kimarta da wasu wawaye ke yi.
		Lalle irin iyakance mace da aka yi a sabuwar jahiliyya (ta wannan zamani) kawai ya banbanta da tsohuwar (jahiliyya) ce kawai ta bangaren zahiri da abin da ya fito fili.
	quran.al-shia.com /ha/ejtema/04.htm (12560 words)

	Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		jahiliyya originally meant "ignorance" but its connotations invoking lawlessness, barbarism, violence, and chaos have since become part of its denotation as well; and (2) Islam — the word of God has been passed down to the humans, and all else that happens after this event is now a part of a different era of history.
		Of course, fundamentalist writers would contend nowadays (consistent with their mentor Sayyid Qutb) that two periods are not helpful in describing Islamic history, since many fundamentalists hold that the Muslim world has reverted back to the conditions of
		jahiliyya came back, but that's an entirely different debate.
	www.blissstreetjournal.com /earlyislam_peridods.htm (775 words)

	Sayyid Qutb
		If we look at the sources and foundations of modern ways of living, it becomes clear that the whole world is steeped in Jahiliyya (pagan ignorance of divine guidance), and all the marvellous material comforts and high-level inventions do not diminish this Ignorance.
		This Jahiliyya is based on rebellion against God's sovereignty on earth: It transfers to man one of the greatest attributes of God, namely sovereignty, and makes some men lords over others.
		It is now not in that simple and primitive form of the ancient Jahiliyya, but takes the form of claiming that the right to create values, to legislate rules of collective behavior, and to choose any way of life rests with men, without regard to what God has prescribed.
	onlineislamicstore.com /syedqutb.html (807 words)

	Masud Forums :: View topic - genre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jahiliyya, as I understand it, refers to the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula - a period of ignorance.
		Namely, in contemporary Arabic 'Jahiliyya' is a literary/religious term that cannot be applied to modern circumstances for it refers to a specific period in a specific place.
		Which I take to mean that the Sheikh is saying 'Yes I know Jahiliyya was a term for pre-Islamic Arabia, but other peoples (tribes) have their own version of Jahiliyya and that postmodernism is the Jahiliyya for the tribe of those living in the west (where postmodernism is most prevalent)'.
	www.masud.co.uk /masud_forum/viewtopic.php?t=6 (3431 words)

	Lapis Online: The inner meaning of contemporary life. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is now not in that simple and primitive form of the ancient Jahiliyya, but takes the form of claiming that the right to create values, to legislate rules of collective behavior, i.e.
		It is better to kill than have people live under a state of jahiliyya where the oppression of men by other men is the norm.
		It is the absolute, universal revolution and the overturning of all barbarism and non Islamic, or pre-Islamic, all jahiliyya, all barbaric ignorance and reinventing all humanity under one sphere of justice, peace, and freedom.
	www.lapismagazine.org /thompson3.htm (2504 words)

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		He declared that the degeneration of humanity in the collectivist governments, the inequity endured by the people ruled by capitalism and colonialism was the effect of this resistance to the command of God, the denial of the distinction that God bestowed upon humanity.
		Qutub argued that the present ignorance was not found in the elementary and crude form of the early jahiliyya but took the fashion of declaring that the liberty to establish values, to prescribe precepts of collective conduct, and to embrace any lifestyle rests with the people themselves without any consideration of God's decrees.
		The solution suggested by Qutub for jahiliyya problem was the establishment of a new elite, a saleh jamaat (righteo us group), among the Muslims that would struggle against the new jahiliyya as the Prophet had once did against the old jahiliyya.
	ghazali.net /book2/chapter8/body_chapter8.html (1741 words)

	Taking Sides in Afghanistan
		In Islamic history, the time before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad is the jahiliyya, the Age of Ignorance.
		For Muslim fundamentalists, like the Taliban of Afghanistan, the jahiliyya didn't end in the seventh century.
		The author is a fellow at the Project for the New American Century and a former Middle East specialist in the Central Intelligence Agency.
	www.newamericancentury.org /afghanistan-030801.htm (799 words)

	Islam: Wahhabism and Salafiyya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this context, Abdul Wahhabi was one of the first to use the term " Jahiliyya ", the barbarous state of Arabia before the advent of Islam, before Mohammed received his revelation from God and brought Islam to the world.
		This was a time of lawlessness and idolatry, as contrasted with the period under Islamic rule, characterized by morality, enlightenment and divine law.
		Especially influential were Rashid Rida and Maulana Maudoodi who developed the notion that modern Western culture was equivalent to Jahiliyya and thus akin to the the primitive savagery of pre-Islamic days.
	www.overlordsofchaos.com /html/islam21.html (9056 words)

	Special Dispatch Series - No. 712 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zionism, he said, is a model of a "Jahiliyya" society that must be fought against.
		Mokhtashemi-Pour said, "The Koran divides [human] society into two groups: one is the civilized or urban societies, [and the other] is the Bedouin or Jahiliyya societies.
		The Prophet Muhammad and the Imam Hassan died on the 28th of the Islamic month of Safar, and the Imam Reza died on the 29th; Jahiliyya is the pre-Islamic period, which was, according to the Islam, a time of great backwardness.
	www.memri.org /bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=SP71204 (603 words)

	Literal Sense
		Rather, Allah in His wisdom has made the qibla a sign (ayah) of Muslim unity, just as He has made the sky the sign of His exaltedness and His infinitude, meanings which come to the heart of every believer merely by facing the sky and supplicating Allah.
		Many of them, especially when newly from the Jahiliyya or "pre-Islamic Period of Ignorance", were extremely close to physical, perceptible realities and had little conception of anything besides--as is attested to by their idols, which were images set up on the ground.
		Umar ibn al-Khattab mentions, for example, that in the Jahiliyya, they might make their idols out of dates, and if they later grew hungry, they would simply eat them.
	muslim-canada.org /aqida.html (2427 words)

	FASTING ON THE DAY OF ASHOORA
		That says that the Ashoora of Jahiliyya was quite different from the Ashoora that we have today.
		However, their practice of fasting on Yaum Kippur is current even today, although the shape and form of the fast is different.
		For example, Hajj was practiced in Jahiliyya - the Prophet continued with that but forbade people going round the K'abah stark naked, which was practiced by the Arabs of Jahiliyya.
	www.saba-igc.org /Moharram/MohsinNaquviArticles/Fast_of_ashoora.htm (3007 words)

	Sayyid Qutb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1964, Qutb, having suffered torture and ten years of incarceration in Nasser's prisons, published his best known work, Milestones, ( Ma'alim fi'l Tariq : alternate translation of the title is Signposts) a work that has inspired some of the most extreme expressions of Islamic revivalism, such as Islamic Jihad and Takfir wa-l Hijra.
		One of the central concepts of the book, jahiliyya ("pagan ignorance and rebellion against God"), was molded at least in part by Qutb's unpleasant sojourn in the United States from 1948 until 1950, an experience in cross-cultural living that did not go well.
		The highest form of triumph is the victory of soul over matter, the victory of belief over pain, and the victory of faith over persecution.
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/sayyid_qutb.htm (729 words)

	Bliss Street Journal Richard Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, images of jahiliyya have varied from time to time, as scholars often cannot agree as to the ultimate significance of the period prior to the coming of Muhammad.
		Lings' description of the jahiliyya period, however, is relatively free of explicit value judgments or comparisons; he seems to accept the pre-eminence of certain tribes and clans as a matter of environmental necessity.
		In this regard, Rubin has little to say about jahiliyya per se as a Before Construct, since his primary concern is in dealing with how the sira writers developed the personality of Muhammad and not necessarily the environment from which he came.
	www.blissstreetjournal.com /Muhammad_Images_paper.htm (4288 words)

	Osmanli Nakshibandi Hakkani Muslim Sufi Order: Sohbets
		This is the worst time that happened to Muslims about which Holy Prophet (saw) is saying, "The second Jahiliyya is going to be worst than the first one." And this is what we are facing today.
		He said that it is because people in the second Jahiliyya time will know certain knowledge and they are not going to accept anything from anyone.
		So Prophet (saw) is saying, "The second Jahiliyya is going to be worse than the first one." That is what we see.
	www.naksibendi.org /sohbets/SAK_2-11-05.html (1906 words)

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