Muslim societies have defined global geopolitics for over half a century

Evidence

The most vital and spectacular events of the last part of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first have involved Islam and Muslims. With the continuing saga of the Palestinian dispossession from the middle of the century, the simultaneous partition of India along a Muslim-Hindu divide, and the anti-colonial movements waged against European powers throughout the world, Muslim societies have all but defined global geopolitics. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 457

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