| | Islamic Civilization in Globalization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | While Western civilization has come to life in long drawn out battles against the tyranny of royality (from the Magna Carta to the Glorious English Revolution) for muslims it has been the most recent battles againt colonialism and imperialism that has unleashed a humanistic spirit. |
 | | The vision of the ummah, writes jailed muslim leader, Anwar Ibrahim, "must be able to transcend cultural specificity [and] inhabit the realm of universal ideas." |
 | | As Ibrahim writes: "Only with access to appropriate education can Ummah consciousness take room and make possible the Ummah of tomorrow as a personification of the pristine morality of Islamic endowed with creative, constructive, critical thought." |
| www.metafuture.org /Articles/islamic-civilization-globalization.htm (4200 words) |