The camp Muslim abandoned prayer and belief in God entirely

Evidence

If you are prevented from praying, then you should make up at nighttime what you have had to omit during the day; and when ritually pure water is for practical purposes lacking, then you must wipe yourself clean [in the ritually approved fashion—tayammum], even if it is just by rubbing your hands clean on a wall. If that is not possible, the generally held view is that the prayer and its execution are not required in the absence of water or clean stone, although you should make some slight pointing motion with your hands or face toward clean earth or stone or a tree such as would have been ritually acceptable for that purpose (this is as taught by Ibn Naji in his commentary to the Risala, and is based on the Prophet’s words: “Take from them whatever they can bring”). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 322 (#complicates, via linked claim)

According to participants, the women’s mosque movement emerged in re.. sponse to the perception that religious knowledge, as a means for organizing daily life, had become increasingly marginalized under modem structures of secular govern Many of the mosque participants criticized what they con.. sidered to be an increasingly prevalent form of religiosity in Egypt, one that ac.. cords Islam the status of an abstract system of beliefs that has no direct bearing on how one lives, on what one actually does in the course of a day. This trend, usually referred to by the movement’s participants as “secularization” ( �almana or �almaniyya) or “western ( tagharrub), is understood to have reduced Islamic knowledge ( both as a mode of conduct and as a set of principles) to the status of “custom and folklore” ( �ad wa fulklur). — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 311 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The camp word ‘Muslim’ originated from prisoners’ praying posture resembling Arabs.; The camp label ‘Muslim’ was unstable, allowing reversal and return; Muslim law excused prayer entirely where purification was impossible — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 322 (+1 more)

Broader Connections