The Muslim World's Identity Crisis After Colonialism

About this lecture

In this first of two lectures, Shaykh Yasir Qadhi traces the intellectual origins of today's major Islamic movements back to the colonial era, examining three broad paradigms of how Muslim scholars responded to the rise of Western power. He introduces the "radical revisionist" and "traditionalist fortification" camps through key historical figures — from Rifa'a al-Tahtawi and Muhammad Abduh to the Deobandi movement and Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari — sharing his own intellectual journey and setting the stage for next week's discussion of the middle paradigm.