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Table 1: Ummah Consciousness and Modernity in Muslim Countries | Table 1: Ummah Consciousness and Modernity in Muslim Countries | ||
Country Ummah Consciousness1 Modernity2 | |||
(Human Development Index) | |||
Indonesia 92 .682 | |||
Malaysia 90 .790 | |||
Pakistan 91 .499 | |||
Egypt 94 .648 | |||
Iran 76 .719 | |||
Turkey 71 .734 | |||
Kazakhstan 22 .765 | |||
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Muslim countries differ in their level of modernity. I would like to argue that the level of modernity would have a significant impact on the institutional development, differentiation and institutional specialization that may lead to a decline in public influence of religious institutions in society while at the same time leading to a greater emphasis on personal religiosity. Such developments would obviously have consequences for the development of religious and political pluralism or at least their greater acceptance as a social and political norm. | Muslim countries differ in their level of modernity. I would like to argue that the level of modernity would have a significant impact on the institutional development, differentiation and institutional specialization that may lead to a decline in public influence of religious institutions in society while at the same time leading to a greater emphasis on personal religiosity. Such developments would obviously have consequences for the development of religious and political pluralism or at least their greater acceptance as a social and political norm. | ||
My argument is that in Muslim countries, political culture, as elsewhere, will evolve in response to national aspirations and not in response to the ummah’s aspirations. If this argument has any validity then the future of Islamic ummah would not be a unitary social reality but a differentiated one. And one consequence of that may be the ‘decentring’ of the Islamic ummah. Let me explore this proposition in some details. | My argument is that in Muslim countries, political culture, as elsewhere, will evolve in response to national aspirations and not in response to the ummah’s aspirations. If this argument has any validity then the future of Islamic ummah would not be a unitary social reality but a differentiated one. And one consequence of that may be the ‘decentring’ of the Islamic ummah. Let me explore this proposition in some details. | ||
==Modernization and the Ummah== | ==Modernization and the Ummah== | ||