Dakwah
Dakwah is an Islamic movement and organized revival movement that arose in Malaysia in the late 1960s .
The Dakwah movement spread among young and well-educated Malays during ethnic clashes in May 1969. Dakwah originally means "to make an invitation" and refers to the Islamic mission ( Da'wa ). It began as a moderate form in Malaysia for the search for identity and as a challenge to the government, which was initially led by the Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Islamic youth movement in Malaysia) and had its origins at the University of Malaya .
In the mid-1970s, the movement took on more radical forms after many students returned to Malaysia from Great Britain who had contact with fellow Saudi , Egyptian and Pakistani students. In the late 1970s, Dakwah so dominated the country's universities that the government took countermeasures.
In the 1990s the movement went under, but as the economy progressed and the Malay population increased their self-confidence, it emerged again and posed a renewed challenge to the government. Some groups advocate the establishment of a kind of Islamic State .
literature
- Michael Leifer: Dictionary of the modern politics of South-East Asia . Routledge, London 1996, ISBN 0-415-13821-3 . Article: "Dakwah".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hussin Mutalib: Islam in Malaysia: From revivalism to Islamic State? Singapore University Press, Singapore 1993, p. 35