MUSLIMS IN THE EUROPEAN WEST: BETWEEN THE GLORIOUS PAST AND THE PROMISED LAND

Abstract

In this essay the author ponders upon the advent of the three Semitic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and their successive arrival in the history of the world. These three religions share same or very similar motives of faith, and on the other hand have disputes about those aspects of faith in which they differ. Author also contemplates the ‘neighboring’ of these three religions, their contests not only in the history (and the time) but also in the geography (and the space). The author then writes about the Muslim perception of the worldly rise of the West, he talks about the Muslim decadence, and how Muslims had created their ‘golden age’ in the past, he expresses his expectations and hopes in contemporary Europe and the West.