...nation-building and economic development. Islamic Power as Personal Virtue Wilfred Cantwell Smith has written, "The fundamental malaise of modern Islam is a sense...problem of modern Muslims is how to rehabilitate that history."23 In Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia, the modernists, on the one hand, feel...

...words, cultural sociology and secular history must be reintegrated. As Wilfred Cantwell Smith puts it, "[t]he fundamental malaise of modern Islam is a sense...modern Muslims is how to rehabilitate that history ... so that Islamic society may once again flourish as a divinely guided society should and must."...

...chapter assesses how the distortions of that prism affected Muslim efforts to modernize. 8 Muslim Anomie The fundamental malaise of modern Islam is a sense...that something has gone wrong with Islamic history. —Wilfred Canrwell Smith WHEN THE EUROPEANS set out to explore the world, they encountered peoples...

...more than forty years ago, characterized the malaise of modern Muslims as the sense that something had gone wrong with Islamic history. "The fundamental...flourish as a divinely guided society should and must." " Muslims who have held this view have not necessarily been passive or fatalistic about it. Some modern...