Islam in the Temple of Reason

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-168
Author(s):  
Ian Coller
Keyword(s):  
Test Case ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter explores the struggle over “dechristianization” and its ways of reconceiving Islam as a historical precedent for religious revolution, as a more rational deism better aligned with revolutionary principles, or as a fanatical superstition to be eliminated. This was not simply a conflict between religion and secularism, but a struggle over what should replace religion that divided even the radical party of revolutionaries. In this struggle, Islam was not swept aside, but on the contrary drawn to the forefront in a number of ways. If atheists saw Islam alongside Christianity and Judaism as a religion to be eliminated, they nonetheless maintained the figure of the Muslim as a test case for the universal vocation of the Revolution. For deists, too, Islam—strictly monotheistic and universalist—could seem much closer to their vision of a purified religion.

Ritual Purity in Daily Life after 70 CE: The Chalk Vessel Assemblage from Shuʿafat as a Test Case

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Yonatan Adler
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
The Temple

Abstract Chalk vessels became common at Jewish sites throughout the Southern Levant beginning in the late first century BCE, apparently because Jews considered stone to be impervious to ritual impurity. It is commonly thought that a drastic decline in the phenomenon occurred after 70 CE as a direct result of the temple’s destruction—on the assumption that the central motivation for Jews’ observance of the purity regulations was the temple cult. These notions are reconsidered here in light of an impressive assemblage of chalk vessels recently unearthed at Shuʿafat, occupied during the brief 70–132 CE interwar period. The character of this assemblage, presented here preliminarily, suggests that both use and production of chalk vessels continued unabated for decades after 70 CE, contradicting the notion that the chalk vessel industry was reliant on a functioning temple and that observance of the purity laws was inexorably linked with the Jerusalem cult.

Muslims and Citizens

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Coller
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

From the beginning, French revolutionaries imagined their transformation as a universal one that must include Muslims, Europe's most immediate neighbors. They believed in a world in which Muslims could and would be French citizens, but they disagreed violently about how to implement their visions of universalism and accommodate religious and social difference. Muslims, too, saw an opportunity, particularly as European powers turned against the new French Republic, leaving the Muslim polities of the Middle East and North Africa as France's only friends in the region. This book examines how Muslims came to participate in the political struggles of the revolution and how revolutionaries used Muslims in France and beyond as a test case for their ideals. The final chapter reveals how the French Revolution's fascination with the Muslim world paved the way to Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Egypt in 1798.

IV.—Supplement to a Chapter in the History of Meteorites

1882 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 446-452
Author(s):  
Walter Flight
Keyword(s):  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Revolution

Dr. Divers has drawn attention to two Japanese meteorites, the property of a gentleman, Mr. Naotora Nabeshima, formerly Daimiyo of Ogi or Koshiro, in the province of Hizen, Japan. They are heirlooms in his farnity, and used to be in the care of the priests of one of the family temples in Ogi, called Fukuchi-inGomado. After the revolution the temple was closed. in the family archives there is a record of these stones having been entrusted some years after their fall to a priest named Jishobo, which is dated December 10th, 1744, and his receipt for them is also preserved; they must therefore have fallen about 150 years ago.

The Revolution that Failed

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Rittenhouse Green
Keyword(s):  
The Revolution
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