| Summary/Abstract |
THE ISLAMIC WORLD, which recently entered the year 1437 (according to the Hijri calendar) of its history, is going through a fundamental crisis, perhaps one of the most acute and fateful crises since the emergence of Islam in the early Middle Ages. This crisis to a very large degree stems from the situation within Islam as such and the deepening disagreements between its various trends and schools. To all appearances, such is the evolutionary development logic of all monotheistic world religions, for example, Christianity, which passed through a period of religious "renaissance" and the crucible of inquisition, and finally found its balanced place in the life of human civilization.
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