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Islam and Development : Religion and Sociopolitical Change
The Islamic World streches from North America to Southeast Asia and includes some forty independent states in which Muslims constitute a majority of the population.Islam has approximately 750 million adherents and, therefore, is the second largest of the world's religions. In the twentieth century Muslim countries have faced formidable political and social challenges : the struggle for independence drom colonial dominance, the formation and development of independent nation states with all the pressures and problems of modenization, etc. While Islam may be acknowledged as a significant force in the precolonial period and to varying degrees during the twentieth century independence movements, the strenght and interaction of Islam in sociopolitical change has often been overlooked or underestimated. As is demonstrated by chapters of this book, the interaction of Islamic tradition with the modernity is indeed a dynamic and complex phenomenon, manifesting itself in varying ways from one Muslim country to another.
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