Pessimism of Reason and Optimism of Will. The Arab World the Day After Tomorrow

... transformation of the social role of religion: it plays an important role today and apparently will continue to play such a role in the future. Unless a new attractive ideology is formulated in the region (and the chances are that it will not, due to global rather ... ... that is, “modern” Salafism (in the spirit of early 20th century reformers) could challenge “archaic” Sufism. Regardless of the specific versions of development (depending on country characteristics) in all the steadily modernizing ...