Very interesting and useful approach. Why did Islamist movements begin to genuinely challenge their political establishments only after the 1970s? Why do we see such a great variety in the socio-economic policies and programs among different Islamist governments and movements? Why have Islamist movements become more successful in industrializing countries? why is it the small industrialist and not the Islamist businessman that is at the heart of the rise of Islamism? Uktu Balaban discusses the case of Turkey
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51