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During the Middle Ages, various theological strains of [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[w:Islam|Islam]] and [[File:Christy.png]] [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] developed that had anarchistic qualities such as the [[File:Ispop.png]] [[w:Mu'tazilitism|Mu'tazilite]] and [[File:Islaman.png]] [[w:Kharijites|Kharijites]] in [[File:Cball-Persia.png]] Persia (who are considered by historian [[File:Awaj-Alt.png]] [[w:David Goodway|David Goodway]] to be a part of the historical anarchist tradition) and anticlerical movements such as the [[File:Anti-Catholic.png]] [[w:Brethren of the Free Spirit|Brethren of the Free Spirit]] and proto-Protestants such as the [[File:JanHus1.png]] [[w:Hussites|Hussites]]. Historian [[File:Historian.png]] [[w:James Joll|James Joll]] describes this as the rise of a strand of anarchism based in the theological, zealotic and ascetic critique of institutions.
The early modern era in Europe saw the development of both secular anti-authoritarian thought as well as the divergence of anti-authoritarian theology within Christianity as part of the greater [[File:Humanismpix.png]] [[Enlightenment Thought|Renaissance]] and [[File:ProtTheo.png]] [[Protestant Theocracy|Reformation]] respectively. Several French thinkers used the concept of 'utopia' to bypass censorship and project their libertine political views, examples include [[File:ChristDemHum.png]] [[w:François Rabelais|François Rabelais]], [[File:ProtTheo.png]] [[w:Gabriel de Foigny|Gabriel de Foigny]] and [[File:Catheo.png]] [[w:François Fénelon|François Fénelon]]. During the English Civil War, Diggers such as [[File:TLeveller.png]] [[w:Gerrard Winstanley|Gerrard Winstanley]] would develop a proto-communalistic view of society preaching values such as absolute egalitarianism, communal ownership of property and socioeconomic organization in small agrarian communities based on the Bible. Alongside this religious egalitarianism, more libertarian philosophers such as [[File:Rousseau.png]] [[
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