The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims

This article uses the Quranic philosophy of history, al-I‘tibar, in understanding what’s, why’s and how’s, which brought about the fall of the Umayyads. Based on this and the fact that history may, as Jeffrey Bartholet observes, “feed on itself,” the factors that caused the downfall of the Umayyad...

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Main Authors: Adegboyega, Adebiyi Jelili, Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IDOSI 2011
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/24132/1/The_Concept_of_Al-I%E2%80%98Tibar_and_the_Fall.pdf
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description This article uses the Quranic philosophy of history, al-I‘tibar, in understanding what’s, why’s and how’s, which brought about the fall of the Umayyads. Based on this and the fact that history may, as Jeffrey Bartholet observes, “feed on itself,” the factors that caused the downfall of the Umayyads were on the one hand, explicatorily evaluated. On the other, these factors were assimilated within the present milieu of Muslims with a view to seeing how history has fed on itself. This study concludes that, failure to make good use of the objects of the lessons of history has created a situation whereby same factors which caused the fall of the Umayyads have significantly fed on themselves to cause the decline of the Muslim ummah.
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spelling iium-241322012-05-16T05:41:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/24132/ The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims Adegboyega, Adebiyi Jelili Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan D History (General) This article uses the Quranic philosophy of history, al-I‘tibar, in understanding what’s, why’s and how’s, which brought about the fall of the Umayyads. Based on this and the fact that history may, as Jeffrey Bartholet observes, “feed on itself,” the factors that caused the downfall of the Umayyads were on the one hand, explicatorily evaluated. On the other, these factors were assimilated within the present milieu of Muslims with a view to seeing how history has fed on itself. This study concludes that, failure to make good use of the objects of the lessons of history has created a situation whereby same factors which caused the fall of the Umayyads have significantly fed on themselves to cause the decline of the Muslim ummah. IDOSI 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/24132/1/The_Concept_of_Al-I%E2%80%98Tibar_and_the_Fall.pdf Adegboyega, Adebiyi Jelili and Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan (2011) The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims. World Journal of Islamic History and Civilization, 1 (1). pp. 49-58. ISSN 2225-0883 http://idosi.org/wjihc/wjihc1(1)11/5.pdf
spellingShingle D History (General)
Adegboyega, Adebiyi Jelili
Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan
The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims
title The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims
title_full The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims
title_fullStr The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims
title_full_unstemmed The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims
title_short The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims
title_sort concept of al-i‘tibar and the fall of the umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of muslims
topic D History (General)
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/24132/1/The_Concept_of_Al-I%E2%80%98Tibar_and_the_Fall.pdf