Adam Sabra’s article “What is Wrong with What Went Wrong?” begins with labeling Le
Adam Sabra’s article “What is Wrong with What Went Wrong?” begins with labeling Lewis’s analysis as “essentialist and ahistorical.” A professor in Islamic history, Lewis published “What Went Wrong?” shortly after 9/11. The book’s central focus is the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. Sabra believes however that Lewis acutely dichotomizes Islamic society with the West and modernity. Sabra locates Lewis’s lack of historical awareness in his belief that Islamicsts maintain that a “state established by Muhammad provides the model against which the ‘Islamicness’ of any subsequent Muslim society is to be judged.” Sabra feels that this mode of analysis completely sidelines all internal division within Islamic society and ignores the prospect of theological change over time. Sabra therefore advocates for a more holistic perspective that incorporates factors such as economic, demographic, cultural, and political trends, especially the involvement of European and American powers in the region. http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/what-wrong-what-went-wrong?ip_login_no_cache=5b32db60751742566ecd94372b1d90fc image from here EC -- source link
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