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Islam’s struggle with modernity

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ed Husain, author of The House of Islam, meets with the historian Tom Holland to explore the roots of some of the challenges Muslims face in the 21st century Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Sadly, I think what happened is most Muslims started to define themselves as being against the West.

0:44.3

So if the West was going to be individualistic, well, we were going to be collectivist.

0:48.3

So if the West was going to be logical, we're going to be excessively emotional and angry.

0:53.3

That might not have been spelled out, but it came down to if the West is going to disregard history,

0:58.0

or we are going to reimagine a perfect form of history.

1:01.8

That was Ed Hussein talking to Tom Holland about the history of Islam

1:06.2

and the challenges it faces in the modern world.

1:25.0

You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine,

1:27.6

with the UK's best-selling history magazine,

1:31.5

available in print and several digital formats all over the world.

1:35.5

Find out more at history extra.com forward slash subscribe or look out for us in your digital newsstand or app store.

1:40.2

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast.

1:43.2

I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC History magazine.

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