Characteristics of what modernity looks like in the West is technologically and economically advancement, urbanization, and secularization. Images of modernity and the west are often merged together, which is problematic when developing countries want to embrace modernity, by models the “supposedly” “one-size-fit” all western policies. Major states and individual in the Middle East initially started out embracing modernity, until the 1970’s occurred. The Iranian Revolution sparked several waves of renewal and the formation of Islamic terrorist groups. Modernity, was not the cause though, external factors such as post-colonialism, poverty, and the increasing presence of the United States in the Middle East led to these social movements and
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The individuals he encountered felt that the Quran and the Sharia provided a guide for all of life and a blueprint for a distinctly Islamic modernity. The individuals Ansary encountered practiced a different Islam, an alienated Islam unaware about the West and the Islam he remember before the war. Ansary met Abdul Qayum, an advocated of the Sharia on his second day in Istanbul. “The Sharia is more than a legal system, it 's a marker that show where [the true] road [of Islam] is” . Qayum insist that as long as they stay on the road, they progress toward the light4. Ansay explains that the West see the Sharia as a hard legal system, but Qayum respond, “When the Sharia is really in place, no hands are cut off, because there is no stealing”4. Another out-of-syno Muslim he encounter was in Morocco and his name was Abdullah. Abdullah declares that the Muslim world has become “careless” and fallen low, which is “why Europe has trampled on us all these centuries”. He further declares that the government of Morocco, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are not Muslim and the mosques are corrupt . The majority of the individuals that Ansary encounter shared these views, they were in a sense detached from the state, and they were of like a brotherhood with no formal structure
The individuals he encountered felt that the Quran and the Sharia provided a guide for all of life and a blueprint for a distinctly Islamic modernity. The individuals Ansary encountered practiced a different Islam, an alienated Islam unaware about the West and the Islam he remember before the war. Ansary met Abdul Qayum, an advocated of the Sharia on his second day in Istanbul. “The Sharia is more than a legal system, it 's a marker that show where [the true] road [of Islam] is” . Qayum insist that as long as they stay on the road, they progress toward the light4. Ansay explains that the West see the Sharia as a hard legal system, but Qayum respond, “When the Sharia is really in place, no hands are cut off, because there is no stealing”4. Another out-of-syno Muslim he encounter was in Morocco and his name was Abdullah. Abdullah declares that the Muslim world has become “careless” and fallen low, which is “why Europe has trampled on us all these centuries”. He further declares that the government of Morocco, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are not Muslim and the mosques are corrupt . The majority of the individuals that Ansary encounter shared these views, they were in a sense detached from the state, and they were of like a brotherhood with no formal structure