Vulnerabilities, risks and threats to national security
ISLAMIC REVIVAL – FROM IDEOLOGY TO UTOPIA

Summary/Abstract: The rise of Islam on the international stage is one of the major characteristics of the contemporary history. Object of continual debates, most of them in the two past decades, Islam is now part of daily reality. Muslim societies all over the world are seen going back to what we think are the origins. At the same time, the clergy has become very vocal and very angry. They want to go back to the “The Golden Age of Islam”, the period of “pure Islam”, the time when the Prophet lived and ruled. There is also a resistance to separate religion and the state. Therefore, there is an Islamic utopia that the Muslims wish to achieve, and is quite normal that such utopia is not achievable.

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