Modern Debates
Once the common opposition to colonialism, corruption and racism was established as a focus, debates on political Islam became generally focused on several core questions through the 1970s:
- The status of women and integration of priorities of feminism into a renewed fiqh
- Islamic economics and the role of debt in oppression and stagnation of Muslim states
- Zionism and the response to the formation of the Jewish state of Israel and the question of statehood
- Self governance in Muslims nations or in nations with significant Muslim minorities
- Control of oil revenues in the Middle East
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