At first glance, the arrival of the year 2000 AD seems unlikely to provoke any great reaction -much less spiritual anxiety- among most Muslims. Any Western 'centurial mysticism' surrounding the... Show moreAt first glance, the arrival of the year 2000 AD seems unlikely to provoke any great reaction -much less spiritual anxiety- among most Muslims. Any Western 'centurial mysticism' surrounding the date 1 January 2000 AD vanishes, after all, in the Hijri calendar equivalent of Ramadan 24, 1420. But despite the outward irrelevance of the Gregorian 2000 to most of the ummah, one Islamic mystical brotherhood -the Naqshbandi-Haqqani order- finds the advent of the year 2000 one of several powerful symbolic events in which traditional Sunni ideas of the 'Last Day"" intersect with the millennial expectations of a new generation of European and American converts to Islam. Show less
