The Political Language of Islam (1988) by Bernard Lewis is a work in the contemporary, scholarly understanding of the relationship between Islam and politics and in the contemporary, scholarly understanding of the political realities of predominantly Muslim countries and, to a lesser extent, of countries with large Muslim communities.
[1][2] Classic Islamic thought recognized no separation between church and state.
[3] According to Lewis, the idea of the secular only began to enter the political thought of Muslim countries and communities in the 19th century.
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