ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a way of thinking about the Islamic heritage that helps us think more creatively about globalization itself. It suggests democratic and open to possibilities than is assumed either by defenders of the Islamic heritage or defenders of global cultural modernity in general. The argument is as follows: all civic global orders require three principles: partial rather than total control; free rather than restricted movement of people and ideas; and cultural pluralism rather than cultural uniformity. The chapter proposes three principles were precisely the de facto organizing principles of what Muslims had historically known as Dar al-Islam, by which they meant any territory in which Islam had become a major feature of civic culture. It shows interpretation of Islamic history that highlights the unity, power, or purity of the Muslims of the golden era of Islam shares a mindset very similar to contemporary.
