ABSTRACT
In his study on Islamic revivalist movements between 1750 and 1850, Ahmad Dallal notes that the common feature of those movements is the absence of the West within their leaders’ writings.1 It was in the second half of the nineteenth century that this encounter with the West began to shape Islamic thought. Not only did the West become a fixture in the discourse of many revivalist thinkers and ideologues, it also changed the features of that discourse and altered the nature and course of the revivalist movements. This is demonstrated in the developments within the Ibadi revival movement that debuted in the eighteenth century and grew into a pan-Islamic anticolonial movement by the late nineteenth century.
