Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Peaking whilst in the Middle Ages, the religion of Islam has a tenuous relationship with the idea of voluntary poverty. While Sufism has encouraged the renunciation of material wealth, Sunni and Shi'ite scholars have traditionally held that self-denial is inconsistent with the Quran's admonition against those who would forbid the good that God has put in this world for his people to enjoy.Some scholars have suggested that Islam began with the message of "sharing with the poor and...the necessity of sacrificing worldy possessions", but following the Hijra flight from Mecca, morphed into a political character extolling conquest.As scholars began to venerate those who abandoned material wealth in order to pursue full-time worship of God, the idealization of poverty grew to such a point that it began to colour Islamic ideas about the nature of poverty.. }
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- Islam_and_poverty abstract "Peaking whilst in the Middle Ages, the religion of Islam has a tenuous relationship with the idea of voluntary poverty. While Sufism has encouraged the renunciation of material wealth, Sunni and Shi'ite scholars have traditionally held that self-denial is inconsistent with the Quran's admonition against those who would forbid the good that God has put in this world for his people to enjoy.Some scholars have suggested that Islam began with the message of "sharing with the poor and...the necessity of sacrificing worldy possessions", but following the Hijra flight from Mecca, morphed into a political character extolling conquest.As scholars began to venerate those who abandoned material wealth in order to pursue full-time worship of God, the idealization of poverty grew to such a point that it began to colour Islamic ideas about the nature of poverty.".