The Islamic World Today

The Islamic World has been identified as a very united community in the history of the modern world. There have been disruptions also in this unity from time to time, but basically Islam is a great-united force. It was Marshal Lyautey who compared the world of Islam to a resonant box: the faintest sound in one corner of the box reverberates through the whole of it. Indeed, the Muslims represent a homogeneous unity unparalleled in the annals of history. The mainspring of their unity is their faith and the language in which the Koran was written. For thirteen hundred years, hundreds of millions of men and women, different in race, nationality, intellectual and social standards have been held together by these two independent yet mutually complementary and indissociable forces.