By Richard Bulliet
ISBN-10: 0231127960
ISBN-13: 9780231127967
ISBN-10: 0231509189
ISBN-13: 9780231509183
Traditional knowledge keeps that the variations among Islam and Christianity are irreconcilable. Pre-eminent heart East pupil Richard W. Bulliet disagrees, and during this clean, provocative e-book he appears underneath the rhetoric of hatred and false impression to problem triumphing -- and deceptive -- perspectives of Islamic heritage and a "clash of civilizations." those sibling societies start while, struggle through an analogous developmental phases, and confront an analogous inner demanding situations. but as Christianity grows wealthy and robust and no more relevant to way of life, Islam unearths good fortune worldwide yet falls at the back of in wealth and power.Modernization within the 19th century brings in secular forces that marginalize faith in political and public lifestyles. within the Christian international, this easily furthers a strategy that had already started. within the center East this provides upward thrust to the tyrannical governments that proceed to dominate. Bulliet argues that starting within the Fifties American policymakers misinterpret the Muslim international and, rather than targeting the starting to be discontent opposed to the unpopular governments, observed just a discussion board for liberal, democratic reforms inside these governments. through fostering slogans like "clash of civilizations" and "what went wrong," americans to this present day proceed to misinterpret the Muslim global and to overlook the chance to target universal floor for development lasting peace. This e-book bargains a clean point of view on U.S.-Muslim family and offers the highbrow foundation upon which to assist construct a calm and democratic destiny within the Muslim world.On "clash of civilizations""Civilizations which are destined to conflict can't search jointly a typical destiny. Like Mathews'Islam, Huntington's Islam is past redemption. the tension of Protestant American concept that either males are inheritor to, announces opposed to Islam an identical self-righteous and unequivocal sentence of 'otherness'that American Protestants as soon as visited upon Catholics and Jews."On "what went wrong""The concept that humans within the heart East as soon as embraced the target of changing into like Europe and was hoping that through adopting eu rules and associations they'd sometime event the entire liberal values we realize within the Europe of this day is nonsense. It assumes a old consequence for Europe itself that nobody even in Europe may have predicted."On "why do they hate us""Those who complicated the japanese profession as a version for postwar Iraq appear to have baseball, hi Kitty, and Elvis impersonators at the back of their minds instead of headscarves and turbaned mullahs.... Like latter day missionaries, we need the Muslims to like us, not only for what we will supply within the manner of a technological society yet for who we're -- for our values. yet we refuse to countenance the idea of loving them for his or her values."On Islam's ideological shortcomings"Jim Jones, David Koresh, and Meir Kahane don't typify Christianity and Judaism within the eyes of the civilized West yet those self same eyes are at risk of see Osama bin weighted down and Mullah Muhammad Omar as typifying Islam."On center East studies"The founders of center East reports missed ideas that they specialize in modern Islam and concentrated in its place on heart Easterners attempting to act like westerners. There were not most of these, simply as there hadn't been loads of converts, however the conviction was once powerful that these few will be pioneers in bringing western modernity to the region... the folks we supported as brokers of modernity grew to become tyrants." (Vol 38, 2006)
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But by and large, the Sufi brotherhoods that became the paramount expressions of mass piety after 1400 lived in harmony with one another and cooperated with state officialdom. Rulers were more likely to patronize eminent living Sufis and arrange to be buried at the feet of deceased saints than they were to charge them with heresy or disloyalty. Where being a Catholic or a Protestant implicitly charged Christian monarchs with responsibilities to defend their faith against the other persuasion, in Islam the communal prayers of the mosque, the proceedings of the courts of religious law, and the Sufi rituals of devotion fit comfortably together in the lives and worldviews of most Muslim rulers.
But by the time the fever had spent itself, a goodly portion of western Europe’s population had been consumed, and the remaining scars reinforced a growing conviction that state power must never again be put at the disposal of intolerant religion. Western secularists today subscribe passionately to the mantra of separating church and state. The logic of their position seems self-evident: religious belief combined with state power is a witch’s brew that poisons all who consume it. It happened that way in European history.
A parallel might be drawn with today’s perceptions of Europe’s impact on the non-European (including Muslim) world in the nineteenth century. Postcolonial thinkers from lands subjected to imperialism concentrate on forms of subjection involved with European imperialism that were virtually unperceivable to past generations of traditional European intellectuals. The latter were prone to stress the economic and technical benefits of relations with Europe in the imperialist era, a phenomenon usually described as westernization or modernization, even as they grudgingly acknowledged the oppressive nature of the colonial system.
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