How Different are Islamicate Societies?
9 Pages Posted: 11 Apr 2012
Date Written: April 11, 2012
Abstract
After 9-11, a new discourse emerged which claimed that contemporary Islamicate compared badly on several indicators – economic development, democracy, women’s rights, and maintaining peace with neighbors – with other developing societies. This essay critiques these claims, where possible by testing them against facts.
Keywords: Islam, democracy, modernity, bloody borders, economic development, per capita income, West, Clash of Civiilzations
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Alam, Mohammad Shahid, How Different are Islamicate Societies? (April 11, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2038503 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2038503
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