Review and Opinion: Introduction to the book 'Islam in a Globalizing World' معرفی و نقد

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Simons considers the civil wars among the Arabs over the succession to the Prophet of Islam to be the cause of the loss of Muslim unity and believes that this conflict gradually led to the division of Muslims: the Sunni majority or followers of the Prophet's tradition, and the Shia minority or followers of Ali. In his view, the details of these civil wars have remained vividly and brightly etched in the minds of Muslims, and many of the discussions and disputes of today's Muslims are the same discussions and topics of the seventh century AD. In the final sections of the first article, the author examines the transformations of the Ottoman government over parts of Europe, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Anatolia, the Safavid rule over Iran, and the Timurid and Mongol empires over northern India and Afghanistan; he believes that, as is customary in the process of globalization, technological changes also played a role in these empires. The author compares the transformations of the Arab world with Russia and Eastern Europe and believes that comparing them does not mean that these histories and locations are identical, but this comparison helps us to better understand our own conditions and circumstances; especially to understand the young men who suddenly emerged from the shadows at the beginning of the new millennium and exploded the center of global trade. 4- Political Islam and other Islams in the Age of Information Technology as a Prelude to Globalization According to the author, in the 1970s, Islamic countries and other parts of the world stood on the threshold of a new era.