States Without Citizens: Understanding the Islamic CrisisTerrorist attacks on America and its allies and persistent violence in the Islamic world point to a crisis in Islamic society, which States without Citizens attributes to an unfulfilled quest for an Islamic renaissance. The Islamic states, whose borders were arbitrarily imposed by Western states, are beset by pervasive socioeconomic problems—authoritarian rule, economic inequities, educational shortcomings, development project failures, sexual frustration—that are being exploited by radical Islamists. Native attempts to modernize Islamic society by adopting Western ways have repeatedly foundered because they have sought to replicate the trappings of state power while neglecting their foundation in civic ethics. To mitigate the violence engendered by the Islamic crisis, the author recommends that culturally authentic institutions must be created that will instill a civic ethics of common cause and public service. |
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... philosophical basis of Western culture , and continue to behave as Western- ers superficially , we'll be like the donkey who posed as a lion and ended up being eaten by one.3 This testimonial might be extended by hundreds of quotes ...
... philosophers Ibn Sina ( Latin , Avicenna ) and Ibn Rushd ( Latin , Averroes ) , who melded Aristotle's original ideas with their own doctrines . Abu al - Walid Muhammad Ibn Rushd , born in Islamic Spain in 1126 CE , was a great ...
... philosophies that included quite alien and potentially subversive models of state - society and intra - societal relation- ships . The ulema class , with its near - monopoly on education , was not eager to change the curriculum of the ...
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Cultures in History | 13 |
Contrast in Ethics | 27 |
Critique of Endeavors | 53 |
Copyright | |
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