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The West in an Islamic Mirror Part II

Muslims and the West. The West in an Islamic Mirror Part II. Muzaffar Iqbal Baqir al-Ulum University, Qum, Iran November-December 2005. DFDFDFDFDFDFDFDF. Four Facets to the Mirror. The Making of the Contemporary West The Making of the Contemporary Muslim World Muslims in a Western Mirror

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The West in an Islamic Mirror Part II

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  1. Muslims and the West The West in an Islamic MirrorPart II Muzaffar Iqbal Baqir al-Ulum University, Qum, Iran November-December 2005

  2. DFDFDFDFDFDFDFDF Four Facets to the Mirror • The Making of the Contemporary West • The Making of the Contemporary Muslim World • Muslims in a Western Mirror • The West in an Islamic Mirror dfdfdfdfdfdfdfdf

  3. A Muslim Lens Unlike the Islamic lens, it is bound by space and time (history); one must contextualize. How did Muslims see the West at various times in global history? Turkish map of the Americas printed in the Jihan Numa of Hajji Khalifah

  4. Medieval Europe (barbarism, ahl al-kitab)

  5. European Scientific Revolution (ranging from interest to apathy to ignorance)

  6. Colonization (inferior, despairing, aspiration to climb colonizers’ social order)

  7. Muslim Nation-states and the West

  8. Muslim Institutions, Rulers, the West

  9. Attempts to counter Western influence often attack the surface(do not address primary causes).

  10. Economic Alliance of Necessity Case studies • Arabia • Jordan • Egypt • Pakistan • Kuwait • Gulf States

  11. Muslim Masses and the West • Technology forming the image • The media • Education • Books, Ideas • Values, ethics, and relationships in Muslim society • Popular image of the West

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