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To: one_less who wrote (153594)	12/7/2004 5:23:15 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I have a different view of that failure. It failed because the scholars in an errant attempt to keep the Islamic community from further territorial fragmentation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire began endorsing political literatures justifying monarchial regimes from Islamic perspective and to islamize such regime formats. This was a huge error, and one that has driven Islamic scholarship since that time, in my opinion. I think you have an excellent point, but not one that explains the entirety of the Islamic failure. From its beginning, it melded religion, law, government, and culture into an entity which was aggressive, territorial, yet ultimately unproductive. The rewards of success are taken directly from the infidels' territories and persons. There was never a religiously sanctioned drive to produce, create and prosper, as was the case with the West.