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The Civic Religion of the United States and the “Subtle” Influence of Chabad-Lubavitch

Ali Arslan Azzali

While the recent conflict between Israel and the United States with the Islamic Republic of Iran may be interpreted exclusively in terms of hegemonic geopolitical imperatives — ranging from control over energy reserves to attempts to neutralise land-based trade corridors aimed at undermining US maritime supremacy — it is undeniable that there are political dynamics rooted in millenarian religious fanaticism that view the reconstruction of the Third Temple as a means of hastening the coming of the Messiah. The most influential of these is undoubtedly the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic movement, Chabad-Lubavitch.

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Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi

On the End of Capitalism and the Revival of Islam¹

by Dr. Riyad Asvat

The inspiration for this article came from my research for a book on the political writings of Shaykh Abdalqadir (1930-2021), may Allah be pleased with him. The article is long because it is very difficult to condense and summarize Shaykh Abdalqadir’s teaching on any issue. There are two reasons for this difficulty. Firstly he was the most important Islamic scholar of the last hundred years as well as the most important Western intellectual of this period and he was a prolific writer whose literary output spanned well over sixty years. Secondly he was able to unify the outward (physical), the inward (psychological) and hidden (spiritual) dimensions of reality whilst our education has trained us to do the opposite, that is, to divide, compartmentalize and analyze. Shaykh Abdalqadir’s greatest contributions to humanity have been: (1) his analysis of contemporary society; (2) his description of the original Islamic phenomenon; and (3) the steps he outlined for Islamic revival.  He did not put a time frame for the Islamic revival. It might well take a hundred years. After all, the capitalists abolished the caliphate in 1924 through a process of modernization that began in 1789. Almost a hundred years later Islam still does not exist as a socio-economic and political reality.