id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ajiss-3146	Sadriu, Behar	Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison (by Ahmet Kuru)	2023.0	38	.pdf	application/pdf	13691	705	55	More recently, its arguments featured in a widely reported op-ed penned by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in the wake of the Taliban recon- quest of Afghanistan, where he characteristically decries ‘Islamism’ as “a first-order security threat to the west”.1 The book itself takes a long-durée approach to questions about Islam’s place in the development of Muslim states and society, especially in the contemporary post-WW2 period. Therefore, we can say that Kuru’s argument is really one which positions Islam itself as having failed to aid Muslim majority states today in keeping up with standards Kuru has set up.	cache/ajiss-3146.pdf	txt/ajiss-3146.txt