The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali A. AllawiIslam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents "the imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it" are now compounded by a third