The Islamic Resurgence matters politically as much as the Reformation did

Evidence

To ignore the impact of the Islamic Resurgence on Eastern Hemisphere politics in the late twentieth century is equivalent to ignoring the impact of the Protestant Reformation on European politics in the late sixteenth century. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 303

Categorization

• SHARE: A clean, bold comparative framing worth sending to anyone interested in the resonance between religious reform eras.
• XREF: connects to: Fascism transforms social character as profoundly as the Reformation and industrialization did — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1072; Economic mystification parallels medieval theology and requires a grassroots Reformation. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1813