Diaspora Trends
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
The People on the Edge: Religious Reform and the Burden
of the Western Muslim Intellectual
This essay surveys the major intellectual tendencies in the Muslim
diasporas in Europe and the United States; it critically examines
and discounts the claims of some of these diaspora thinkers who
see their reformist thinking prevailing in the Islamic heartlands.
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Richard W. Bulliet
Islamic Reformation or "Big Crunch"? A Review Essay
Offers one great insight on cycles in Islamic civilization, of expansion
and proliferation followed by consolidation and homogenization. Are
Muslims in a new phase of expansion and proliferation?
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