Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi was a " alumni " and an important early twentieth-century figure in the Islamic revival in India, and then after independence from Britain, in Pakistan.

it sought Islamic revival through preaching and also by providing basic community services including schools, mosques, and workshops.

Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians ( including his ordering of execution of thousands of political prisoners ;), but also lauded as a " charismatic leader of immense popularity ", and a " champion of Islamic revival " by Shia scholars.

After the 1977 death of Dr. Ali Shariati ( an Islamic reformist and political revolutionary author / academic / philosopher who greatly popularized the Islamic revival among young educated Iranians ), Khomeini became the most influential leader of the opposition to the Shah.

* Tabbaa, Yasser, The transformation of Islamic art during the Sunni revival, I. B. Tauris, 2002, ISBN 1-85043-392-5, ISBN 978-1-85043-392-7, google books

In architecture, Egyptian revival architecture was popular mostly in the early and mid-19th century, and Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture or Moorish Revival architecture, covering a variety of general Islamic or Indian features, in the later part of the century ; " Saracenic " referred to styles from Arabic-speaking areas.

There was another, more durable revival in the Italian renaissance when the fall of Byzantium and rising trade with the Islamic cultures brought a flood of knowledge about, and from, the antiquity of Europe.

* Islamic revival

* Islamic revival

Hassan Hanafi reached the same conclusion: " It is difficult to find a more appropriate term than the one recently used in the West, ‘ fundamentalism ,' to cover the meaning of what we name Islamic awakening or revival.

* January 4-A Chinese delegation of the Chinese OFEM company arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan to assist the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan with the revival of hydel power projects.

Abduh influenced modern Arab nationalism in particular, because the revival of true Islam's ancestors ( who were Arabs ) would also become the revival of Arab culture and the restoration of the Arab position as the leaders of the Islamic world.

* the Islamic revival, which grew Arab nationalism declined, and whose adherents were very hostile towards nationalism in general, believing it had no place in Islam ;

According to scholar Vali Nasr, political tendencies of Sunni and Shia Islamic revival differ, with Sunni fundamentalism " in Pakistan and much of the Arab world " being " far from politically revolutionary ", while Shia fundamentalism is strongly influenced by Ruhollah Khomeini and his talk of the oppression of the poor and class war.

That the revolution replaced the monarchy and Shah Pahlavi with Islamism and Khomeini, rather than another leader and ideology, is credited in part to the spread of the Shia version of the Islamic revival that opposed Westernization, saw Ayatollah Khomeini as following in the footsteps of the beloved Shi ' a Imam Husayn ibn Ali, and the Shah in those of Husayn's foe, the hated tyrant Yazid I.

Salafis believe that Islam's decline after the early generations results from religious innovations and from an abandoning of pure Islamic teachings ; that an Islamic revival will only result through emulation of early generations of Muslims and purging of foreign influences.

Another change Sadat made from the Nasser era was a bow towards the Islamic revival.

Controversy over Qutbism is in part an expression of the disagreement of two of the main tendencies of the Islamic revival: the more traditional Salafi Muslims, and the more radically active Muslim groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the group Qutb was a member of for about the last decade and a half of his life.

However, due to the revival of Islamic orthodoxy by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab ( strongly clinging to the Hadith texts and Quran ) against developed cultural practices they were destroyed by local authorities who identified them as sources of Shirk and of being reprehensible innovations in Islam or ' Bid ‘ ah '.

* Islamic revival, an ongoing process since the 1970s

After the fall of the Roman empire, the works of the Peripatetic school were lost to the west, but in the east they were incorporated into early Islamic philosophy, which would play a large part in the revival of Aristotle's doctrines in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

At the same time, an Islamist party, the Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ) and a Chinese socialist party, the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ), gained increasing support, at the expense of UMNO and the MCA respectively.

The use of the term Islamism was at first " a marker for scholars more likely to sympathize " with new Islamic movements ; however, as the term gained popularity it became more specifically associated with political groups such as the Taliban or the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, as well as with highly publicized acts of violence.

His National Islamic Front first gained influence when strongman General Gaafar al-Nimeiry invited members to serve in his government in 1979.

Its ideas had gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups with its " model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work ".

It gained popularity among Shiite Iraqis by providing social services and humanitarian aid, following the pattern of Islamic organizations in other countries such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

His movement gained momentum through the year, and he quickly gathered recruits from Islamic schools.

It also gained an Islamic character with the construction of a number of mosques, many of which still remain.

As the Islamic reformers gained popularity and influence, the colonial authorities responded in 1933 by refusing them permission to preach in official mosques.

* Simultaneously, Europe gained access to advanced mathematics which had its provenance in the works of Islamic scholars.

During his stay in Iran, he gained recognition as a Mujtahid ( a high-ranking Islamic scholar ).

The emblem of Afghanistan bears the Islamic calendar year 1298 ( 1919 in the Gregorian calendar ), the year Afghanistan gained independence from the British Empire.

Literary criticism also grew into theology, and thus gained a more official status with Islamic study of the Qur ' an.

Gordon Moyes ( no longer a member of the party ) explained, " Our Christian heritage is under attack from pagan and secularist forces, militant Islamic groups, a neo communism under a Green guise and a strident homosexual lobby that has successfully gained the support of the Labor Party, Australian Democrats and the Greens, and many from the left of the Liberal Party.

Murray complained to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in November 2002, January or early February 2003, and in June 2004 that intelligence linking the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan to al-Qaeda, suspected of being gained through torture, was unreliable, immoral, and illegal.

The film has also gained considerable recognition in the Islamic world for its accurate, detailed, and sympathetic depiction of Berber and Islamic culture.

After Afghanistan had been invaded in 1979, and the Islamic mujahid movement gained force, fears of Soviet encirclement and Islamic fundamentalism lead to the reopening of the XPCC in 1981 as well as the cultivation of frontier lands and economic development.

The conflict began in December 1991, when the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) party gained popularity amongst the Algerian people and the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) party, fearing the former's victory, cancelled elections after the first round.

They gained disproportionate power over the Sudanese economy through their dominance of Islamic banking.

More recently the term has gained use as an umbrella term outside the Arabic-speaking world to indicate religious-policing organizations in Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and the former Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan with at least some government recognition or deference which enforce varied interpretations of Sharia law.

In 1992 he published Yimonga Yul, a pamphlet advocating Islamic values that gained him support among the populace.