DOCTRINAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CLASSICAL SUNNI ISLAM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAMISM

Abstract

Memories of Muslim military successes during Islams birth period strongly contrasted with the reality, where Muslim world turned to be in the colonial and post-colonial period. At that time, Muslim world was mediating about failure's reasons when Islamism, the religion-political ideology of Islamic fundamentalism, offered its decision. Former advances confirmed the truth of Islamic religious doctrine in the religious consciousness of some Muslims, but the truth could not be the reason of recent mishaps unlike people who have committed the changes and have distorted the divine revelation. Islamists consider that socio-political crisis is a consequence of departure from truth, distortion of religious doctrine, revealed by Allah. The Muslim world needs reformation by the returning back to the pure untouched religious tradition of early ages, following of which put the time of greatness back. The doctrinal contradictions between classical religious tradition of Sunni Islam and Islamism have been investigated in the article including the divergence in mashab, taklid, idjtihad, jihad and ummah interpretations.