ABSTRACT
The paradoxical nature of this title lies in the contradiction between the two concepts that it brings together. Indeed, for half a century in the Arab region, less and less is said of the Muslim world in the Arab region, and it is the problem of modernity that is debated more and more under all its aspects. A second paradox arises out of the fact that the idea of a “Muslim world” was invented by Westerners during the colonial period, that is, basically in the first half of the twentieth century, at a time when this vast colonized area stretched from Indonesia to the Maghreb, and from Uzbekistan to Africa. This huge region was occupied by the European colonial powers of England, France, Holland, and Russia.
