Is there an Islamic problem?

M.Shahid Alam

Paperback(IBT,Malaysia) 220 Pages

Price RS 335.00

ISBN 9789839541439    

This paper answers the charge of Orientalists – especially Bernard Lewis – that the failure of the Islamicate to catch up with the West is due to the incompatibility between Islam and modernity. First, it must be noted that this failure is not specific to the Islamicate, but one which it shares with much of the rest of the world outside Western Europe. It counters the notion that the Islamicate went into all-round decline in 11th or 13th century. If the Islamicate failed to adopt the steam technology or republican forms of government, this was not for lack of trying. Without exception, the Western powers used their superior power to destroy such initiatives in Egypt, Tunisia, the Ottoman Empire and Iran.