Political quietism toward rulers prevailed across Muslim polities for a millennium
Evidence
[There] was a consensus that as long as a ruler could defend the territories of Islam (dar al-Islam) and did not prevent his Muslim subjects from practicing their religion, rebellion is forbidden, for fitna (anarchy) was worse than tyranny … Political quietism was the rule in most Muslim polities most of the time for a thousand years, from the eighth to the eighteenth century. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 321
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s ‘standing apparatus, any hand’ MOC thread by showing quietism as a theological-political accommodation installed across regimes regardless of economic formation.