Islam is not only a religion, but also a culture, tradition, and
civilization. There are currently 1.5 billion people in the world
who identify themselves as Muslim. Two thirds of the worldwide
Muslim population, i.e. approximately a billion people, live in
forty-eight Muslim majority countries (MMC) in the world- all of
which except one are in Africa and Asia. Of these MMCs in Africa
and Asia, only twelve (inhabited by about 165 million people) have
ever achieved a high score on the Human Development Index (HDI),
the index that measures life expectancy at birth, education and
standard of living and ranks how "developed" a country is. This
means that the majority of the world's Muslim population lives in
poverty with low or medium level of human development.
The contributions to this innovative volume attempt to determine
why this is. They explore the influence of environment, space, and
power on human development. The result is a complex,
interdisciplinary study of all MMCs in Africa and Asia. It offers
new insights into the current state of the Muslim World, and
provides a theoretical framework for studying human development
from an interdisciplinary social, cultural, economic,
environmental, political, and religious perspective, which will be
applicable to regional and cultural studies of space and power in
other regions of the world.
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