Islam : A Short History
THE ARRIVAL OF THE WEST (1750.2000) The rise of the West is unparalleled in world history. The countries north of the Alps had f ...
142. Karen Armstrong The new society of Europe and its American colonies had a different economic basis. Instead of relying upon ...
Islam • 143 polity had to be seen to work effectively. An increasing num- ber of people were needed to take part in the various ...
144. Karen Armstrong The colonized country provided raw materials for export, which were fed into European industry. In return, ...
Islam • 145 all connection with their roots, and experienced a sinking loss of identity. Where Europeans and Americans had been ...
146. Karen Armstrong are not likely to emerge from the process in the way that they did in the West. The Islamic world has been ...
Islam • 147 The European invasion of the Islamic world was not uni- form, but it was thorough and effective. It began in Moghul ...
148. Karen Armstrong scholars, a library of modern European literature, a scientific laboratory and a printing press with Arabic ...
Islam • 149 came subject to the new Soviet Union. Even after some of these countries had been allowed to become independent, the ...
Karen Armstrong safah. He loved the way everything worked properly in Paris, was impressed by the rational precision of French ...
Islam. 151 larize the country, Muhammad Ali simply confiscated much religiously endowed property and systematically marginal- iz ...
152. Karen Armstrong dominate and crush the Muslim world. He could see the dan- gers of a shallow imitation of Western life, and ...
Godless West? From this point, a growing number of Mus- lims would wrestle with these questions, and their attempts to put Musli ...
154. Karen Armstrong the growing secularism of Arab intellectuals and pundits, who sometimes poured scorn upon Islam in the beli ...
Islam. 155 had been deeply influenced by Western thought and had re- ceived a Ph.D. in London. Yet he believed that the West had ...
156. Karen Armstrong achieve a higher level of social justice, fight against illiteracy and poverty and liberate Muslim lands fr ...
Islam • 157 was hard for Muslims to know how to respond to the West, be- cause the challenge was unprecedented. If they were to ...
158. Karen Armstrong fulfilment. The polity was therefore a matter of supreme im- portance, and throughout the twentieth century ...
Islam • 159 had done nothing more inflammatory than hand out leaflets or attend a meeting. In Iran, the Pahlavi monarchs were al ...
160. Karen Armstrong what passed as nationalism took a purely negative stance and became identified with the desire to get rid o ...
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