Summary
Those “tied” or “garrisoned” within the land, tasked with remaining steadfast in its defence, as a young shaykh presented Palestinian Muslims at AMP’s 2013 conference youth session in Lybarger’s Chapter 3 (Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile, PDF p.118).
Details
- The term has a collective connotation but is in the masculine plural form; the shaykh emphasised the special status of Palestinian Muslims as murabitun while reminding youth that Palestine belonged to all Muslims, recounting Palestine as the site of the second holiest mosque [as printed] and the land of a succession of prophets culminating with Muhammad, Muslim rule of Jerusalem under ‘Umar Ibn al-Khattab in 637 CE, and Salah al-Din Ibn Ayyub’s retaking of the city in 1187 (PDF p.118 / printed p.97).
- The message implicitly criticised diaspora Palestinians who had relinquished the physical duty of being garrisoned, a condition advocacy through AMP could ameliorate (PDF p.118 / printed p.97).
- The shaykh did not discuss the murabitat (the feminine plural), women who hold vigil through regular prayer and other activities in defence of al-Aqsa Mosque in Palestine today; Lybarger reads the omission as indicating a persisting patriarchal ordering of political work (PDF p.118 / printed p.97).
Related pages
Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile · American Muslims for Palestine · Waqf