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World Service,29 Mar 2002,26 mins

Part Five - The Industrial Age and Beyond

History Of Islam

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Tracing the history of Islam from the 18th Century onwards, with particular reference to the failure of Europe to understand Muslims, the failure of Muslims to come to terms with a new age and the failure to reconcile two very different types of society with the onset of the industrial age in Europe. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2002.

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