Morocco as a Hub of Globalised Traditional Islam

Muslims on every continent have responded in a great variety of ways to the challenges colonial modernity. Yet, it is also possible examine broader currents within this diversity. Fundamentalism, modernism, and traditionalism are global which overlap with other religions, such as Christianity or Hinduism. However, these contested unstable categories only loosely designate internally diverse comprised complex sub-currents well countercurrents. for example, has been used various Wahhabi Salafi movements. Modernism can refer liberal, progressive, even postmodern Islamic Traditionalism generally refers those movements claim continuity classical lineages, especially jurisprudence (fiqh), doctrine (‘aqîda), spirituality (tasawwuf). associated current identify Traditional rather than Traditionalist. Islam community whose participants adhere several Sunni Shia lineages share common discourse, network, aesthetics. These typically depict fundamentalism too rigid literalist, modernism eager capitulate Western ideologies prone unorthodox interpretations Islam. hostility conflict West, tend promote peaceful inter-civilizational dialogue, based shared values terms spirituality, ethics, indeed geopolitical stability. Morocco emerged hub Islam, along countries Jordan. It pursuing an official policy reinforce its reputation centre tradition that converges around following four central elements: (1) veneration Prophet Muḥammad’s descendants (sharifism); (2) Maliki fiqh; (3) Ash’ari ‘aqîda; (4) Junaydi tasawwuf. This article examines how actively engaged shaping regional community. proposes decolonial world-systems analysis discourse relates lived experiences places Morocco. Based analysis, concludes credibility problem impedes efforts by defend unique being, knowing, behaving developed against ongoing genocidal threat