Islamic Stuff

Is Islam Secularizable? To answer this question, we need to say that Islam is one of the world's oldest religions is also one of the world's most adaptable -- even to a secularist society." Sadik J. al-Azm, an intellectual Arab dealt with this  issue, he wrote:"The question of whether Islam can be secularized has been on the agenda of modern Arab and Muslim thought and history since Bonaparte's occupation of Egypt in 1798.  In fact Arabs have been attempting to settle the issue since at least the last quarter of the nineteenth century; and part of the twentieth century. For example; since what Arabs often refer to in our recent past as the Arab Renaissance, or  Arab Awakening, or  Islamic Reformation, or what the late expert on the period, Albert Hourani, an Arab Historian, aptly called the "Liberal Age" of Arab thought."

 As response to change in his attempt to formulate a realistic answer to the question Is Islam secularizable?, He started by raising another question: was the simple, egalitarian, and unadorned Islam of Mecca and Medina (known as Yatherb in Arabic) at the time of the Prophet and the first four Rightly-Guided Caliphs (chosen by the then-emerging Muslim community as his successors) compatible with the dynasties of such complex empires as Byzantium and Sassanid Persia at the time of their Arab-Muslim conquest? He answered negatively and positively together to the question: "Yes, the two became very compatible in an incredibly short period of time. But the early Muslim purists were absolutely right at the time of the first Arab conquests to insist that nothing in the Muslim orthodoxy of the day could make the Islam of Medina, Mecca, and the four Rightly-Guided Caliphs compatible with hereditary monarchy."  Then he explained movements in Christianity such as the Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre movement and his followers in Europe and the United States