Modernity and the Muslim World (original) (raw)

In this paper I analyze the expansion of modernity and its influence in the Muslim world. There are broadly two competing streams of thought that explain the impact of modernity on the Muslim world. One argues that the factors are mainly socioeconomic and that the Middle-East suffers a developmental crisis, the other argues that the factors are mainly socio-cultural and that there is some kind of a clash of civilizations. My conclusion is that both factors play an important role and that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Modernity and the disintegration of the last Muslim Empires