Clash of Civilizations and the Muslim World (original) (raw)

Clash of Civilizations: The Muslim World and the 'West' 133 4.1 Ruling over the World: the Muslim Religious Desire 4.2 Discontents Between Islam and the West 143 4.3 Disputed Definition of Welfare 151 4.4 Westernization of the World 161 4.5 Discontents of Contemporary Issues 171 Notes 179 viii Chapter 5 Future Aspects of the Muslim World 181 5.1 Possibility of Tolerance and Alliance 182 5.2 Reformation of Democracy 192 5.3 Fundamentalism 200 5.4 Revival of Classical Heritage 208 5.5 Continual Mutual Discontents 215 Notes 223 Chapter 6 Challenges to the Western World and Possible Stability 225 6.1 Eradication of the Causes of Fundamentalism 226 6.2 Affable Political 'West' 235 6.3 Justifiable Economics 6.4 Towards the Religious Realities 6.5 Possibility of Peace: A Review of Semitic Celestial Literature Notes 266 Conclusion Glossary Bibliography 291 Khuldun presented the theory of 'Asabiyya'. 35 According to him no nation is everlasting. Different nations have a particular age, in which they rule a state, and after the completion of their period, they demise and a new nation captures the state, but this new nation is also not an everlasting. It is in fact due to clash among different groups that emerge and demise but this entire process is run with the help of wars. The contemporary world is facing the same situation. Every civilization attempts to maintain its influences over others, and this policy is reasoning of disturbance. Communal clashes are continued from the emergence of creatures and clash among groups is not a new idea. It can be observed from the known history of mankind. The Greeks and the Romans regarded only themselves as 'civilized', with every thing foreign, and particularly living to the east of the Mediterranean; bore the label "barbarian". 36 Greek states had discontents and clashes with other world nations. They were united against any foreign attack, but among 158 states of Greek there were also mutual discontents. Sparta and Athens were the super powers of Greek, they quarreled among themselves to achieve the leadership of other Greek states. Celestial literature mentions also the events of the nations of the Prophets, which are older than Greeks. Religious history also explains the clash among different groups. Roman Empirical history, clash of Jews and Christina, clash of religion and science, clash of landlords in the West, Kings and democratic powers, clash of Jews and Muslims, Muslims and Christians, Crusades long period of European wars in the last centuries, Mutual conflicts of the Muslim world, Western captures of Asian, African and American regions, world wars, and contemporary NOTES Chapter 2