Chapter 22

Destiny Williams

Professor Andrews

World History 2

April 2018
                                                    Chapter 22: The End of Empire

• The growing intrusion of the West and of modern secular culture into the Islamic world has prompted acute and highly visible debate among Muslims.
• Turkey emerged from the Ottoman Empire and adopted a distinctive path of modernization, westernization, and secularism.
• Policies sought to remove Islam from any significant role in public life.
• Ottoman rulers had claimed leadership  of the entire Islamic world.
• Although Ataturk was seeking removing Islam from public life of Turkey, a new form of Muslim organization in Egypt was strongly advocated.
• Long a major presence in Egyptian political life, the brotherhood has frequently come into conflict with state authorities.
• A pamphlet addressed to Egyptian and other Arab political leaders spelled out its views about the direction toward which a proper Islamic society should move.
• The Iranian revolution brought to power an Islamist government able to infuse public life with "the spirit of Islam".