The fall of the Islamic world

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Hamed Abdel-Samad , author of the book The Fall of the Islamic World

The Fall of the Islamic World - A Forecast is a book by the German-Egyptian political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad . The book was published in 2010 by Droemer-Verlag .

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Samad predicts in the book that Islam is threatened with decline due to a lack of secularization . In contrast to the first three centuries of its history, the Islamic world now represents an inimitable culture that has no innovations to offer for humanity. The religious pluralism of yore, which even allowed hedonistic ways of life, has been replaced by a phase of cultural regression. The sense of superiority that is instilled in every Muslim would be in contrast to the complexes that would be evoked by the superiority of Western European-American culture. The radicalization known as Islamism is a consequence of the authoritarian exercise of power in religion and politics in connection with an unenlightened image of God.

The evaluation of Egyptian school books shows that scapegoats are being sought for the current misery of the Islamic world, up to and including a conspiracy by the West. The Islamic view that a modernization by “shopping” for the achievements of the West while rejecting the secular-scientific thinking that made this possible is wrong. The negative influences of Ottoman and Western imperialism cannot be denied, but serve as a convenient excuse for one's own passivity and self-assessment as victims.

Without reforms to the cult of authority and obedience based on the law of God, which has an impact on the family structure and hypocritical sexual morality, the Islamic world threatens to collapse at the latest when oil runs out. This self-inflicted weakness can only be tackled with a criticism of Islam comparable to that of the Renaissance . Whether Islam can be reformed is questionable because it has been endowed with "birth defects and construction defects" that make it difficult to separate religion and state . That is why people have to change their attitudes towards the Koran so that they understand it not as God's word, but as man-made work.

Reception and criticism

“Hamed Abdel-Samad is not the first Muslim to grapple with Islam. Before him, Salman Rushdie and Ibn Warraq , Necla Kelek and Seyran Ates , among others , did it, just to name the most famous names. But nobody has done it as thoroughly, as radically, as consistently as he has in recent years. The 'post-Koranic discourse' he dares goes further than criticism of Islam. "

- Henryk M. Broder

“Critics will accuse this author of one-sidedness and generalizations. He polarizes and wants that too. In fact, he says nothing about the spiritual Islam of the Sufis , which shaped this culture for centuries, and also little about the rationalist traditions and reform movements; the Islamic world of states between Morocco, Turkey and Malaysia can also be assessed in many ways in a more differentiated manner. But a sore point has been hit that hurts many Muslims and will probably outrag some. "

- FAZ

In autumn 2010, the book reached number 21 on the list of best-selling non-fiction books published by Buchreport magazine .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Günter Lerch : The "Fall of the Islamic World". In: FAZ . November 17, 2010, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  2. ^ Sabine Pamperrien : Islam in retreat. In: Deutschlandradio . September 13, 2010, accessed July 18, 2013 .
  3. ^ Wolfgang Seibel: Reforms necessary, but also possible? In: ORF . October 20, 2010, accessed July 18, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Henryk M. Broder: Post-Koranic Discourse - Hamed Abdel-Samad: “The fall of the Islamic world. A forecast ”; Droemer Verlag, Munich 2010 ; Deutschlandradio Kultur Lesart , September 5, 2010
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Günter Lerch : The "Fall of the Islamic World". In: FAZ . November 17, 2010, accessed October 6, 2013 .
  6. ^ Prophet in Criticism , buchreport.de of October 9, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2016.

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