Shireen Hunter provides a pragmatic analysis of relations
between Islam and the West, marked by specific cases from the
contemporary Islamic/Western divide. Her book gives a realistic and
accurate assessment of the relative role of civilizational factors
in determining the nature of the state and the prospects for
Muslim-Western relations (i.e., whether they will be conflictual or
cooperative). Hunter answers the question: Can an accommodation
between Islam and the West take place in a gradual and evolutionary
manner or will it happen only after conflict and confrontation?
And, contrary to Huntington's vaunted thesis in "The Clash of
Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" (Simon &
Schuster, 1996), she finds that the reality of modern Islam offers
room for hope.
Hunter challenges many of the prevailing Western views of the
Muslim world. For example, despite the widespread belief on the
specificity of Islam because of an assumed fusion of politics and
religion, in reality the fusion--of the spiritual and the
temporal--has not been greater in Islam than in other religions.
Therefore, Hunter asserts, the slower pace of secularization in
Muslim countries can not be attributed to IslaM's specificity. This
is a major study that will be of interest to concerned citizens as
well as scholars and students of the Middle East and Islam.
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