Political Islam’s visibility pushed Western social science beyond classic modernization theories.

Evidence

Thus in Western social science the increased visibility of political Islam, along with other forms of the politics of difference, combined with the emergence of race and ethnicity as primary analytical categories to contribute to the introduction of new analytical paradigms for the study of modernity itself, paradigms, of course, which moved a considerable distance from the classic modernisation theories. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3502