International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation SOME TYPES OF ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS WITH POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS Islamic movements with political agendas and goals are different and diverse in the Muslim world and are primarily identied with their founders. These movements are divided into movements from the very base and branches that are detached from their mother cell. achieve their goals, the Wahhabi followers declared war to all those who opposed the doctrine of Abdul Wahhabi, considering them to be as the only group that will escape the res of hell, and as the only true practitioner of ranks of Ehli- Sunnah. Following the great division of the Muslim community into Sunni 55 and Shia 56 by the end of From the Wahhabi doctrine, today groupings and sects have derived, such as: the Jamaat the VI-th Century and the beginning of the VII-th "Salayyah","takri","Rabi-ronment" etc., and Century, for the purpose of supremacy, their presence in recent decades have meritocracy and politics, with time passing, signicantly extended in many different several religious groups and sects have been countries of the world, including countries formed on the basis of their founders. inhabited by Albanians, but also in Balkans and Below are several main basic Islamic Europe. This spreading was achieved thanks to the oil 58 that was explored in the beginning of the movements established for political reasons, XX-th Century, which enabled for a great which have their place in Muslim societies in nancial support. Wahhabi activities outside its general, across different periods of time, which origin where it emerged are developed mainly 44 in one way or another are active even today, somewhere more and somewhere less. through operating with associations having different names, as well as their representative individuals. Wahhabi movement is religious political movement founded and led by Muhammad bin Wahhabists refuse to follow religious law Abdul Wahhabi. Its founder claimed that schools that are accepted by consensus from Muslims of his time had deviated from the path Muslim scholars. They call to follow only certain of faith in God, therefore according to him it was Muslim scholars, who represent and cultivate necessary to take steps aimed at the preserving their rigid and puritanical doctrine, whereas of the sound faith that should be based only on scholars that stand outside this idea are labeled three main sources: with different names such as: renegades, lame in faith, not true followers of the Akida – the This movement is named after its founder, in knot of the faith in God, the ones that have quit 1703, at a place called Najd, which is located in religion, sinners, etc. the middle of the Arabian Peninsula. In order to Djubandij Movement in India: The Djubandi a. in the Quran, b. the sayings of Muhammad, c. and the legacy of the rst generation of Muslims identied as“ Es-selef es-Salih”. 57 Islamic Movement in India was born as a reaction against the rule of the Great Britain. It was led by Ahmed Han(1817-1892), and was founded in Djubandi, some 150 km away from the capital of New Delhi. 55 Sunnis are the largest group of Muslims who believe in the revealed book of Quran, the accurate sayings of Muhammad, the four law schools established after the death of Mohammed, and the four caliphs after Muhammad. They are all considered legitimate and reliable. 56 Shias are the second group in the Muslim World, which at the beginning of their establishment have been known as a follower or followers of Ali, the fourth Caliph after the death of Muhammad. Their largest group is the followers of their 12 Imams who are heir to Ali. 57 Selef es-Salih, are considered as fair and trustful followers of the original practice of Muhammad a.s. 58 Until the exploration of black gold in the Arabian Peninsula, the primacy of Islamic religious thoughts was with the other academic centers of the Arab world and Islamic university of Al-Az-har in Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Istanbul, India, Pakistan, etc. Even now the greatest thinkers and most famous Islamic thoughts are outside the Arabian Peninsula, but many of them have remained in shadow due to the difcult economic situation of the countries where they live, as well as the nancial support which they do not enjoy in their academic institutions in which they operate.