Ali Allawi is an Iraqi statesman who served in post-Saddam Iraq as Minister of Defense and then Minister of Finance and is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In his book The Crisis of Islamic Civilization he gives a wake-up call for Muslims "to muster the inner resources of their faith to fashion a civilizing outer presence." He questions the very possibility of the survival and continuity of Islam's "transcendental ideal" in the face of profound challenges

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... ght by modernity, globalisation, and impersonal technological and marketising forces.