In the Path of God by Daniel Pipes

In the Path of God by Daniel Pipes

Author:Daniel Pipes [Pipes, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Islamic Studies, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781351512916
Google: bK00DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-08T04:36:47+00:00


The Travails of Modern Islam

Many reasons have been offered for the difficulties Muslims face in modernizing; it may help to recapitulate these before drawing conclusions.

The great majority of the problems took form before the rise of Western Europe in the eighteenth century; the context in which Muslims acted already existed well in advance of their encounter with the modern West. The following characteristics, all of which subsequently caused Muslims difficulties, predated the European intrusion:

The withdrawal of subjects, the gulf between ruler and ruled, and the reliance on outsiders conflicted with the democratic bent of European ideologies.



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