Awakening

Islamic awakening or Intifada is a term that refers to the revival of the religion of Islam again. The most famous awakening in modern history began approximately in the year 1970, and is manifested in the adoption of Islamic culture, such as dress, terminology, gender segregation, expression and vehicle on the media, and a commitment to values and morals from the perspective of The Islamic Religion. Often your finger from the movement with the political community, specifically many areas and elements of the military and other forms of re-Islamization, while, another awakening, violence and armament as a method for it was accompanied by some religious extremism and attacks on civilians and military targets by Islamists.

In South Asia, modernist thinkers and statesmen such as Syed Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah promoted the theory of dual religious nationalism in the Indian Peninsula and the Muslim League in India which led to the establishment of the first modern Islamic Republic: Pakistan.

Abu Ala Al-Mawdudi is also considered one of the advocates of the Awakening, and he is a leader and one of the founders of the Islamic Group in South Asia, which is today one of the largest Islamic parties in the Indian subcontinent, which includes four countries: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, although these parties have no organizational link in the matter. Between them.

Among the most important events that helped the Islamic awakening: the energy crisis in the seventies of the last century that led to the formation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by King Faisal bin Abdelaziz, and the second event was the return of Imam Khomeini to Iran in 1979 and his establishment of the Islamic state  The third event is the incident of the Great Mosque of Mecca, known as the Juhayman incident.