ABSTRACT
To an Outside Obseryer, it would seem that over the last thirty or forty years the political advancement of the Muslim countries has outrun the cultural. From the point of view of the conservative or merely the tradition-conscious Muslim, a statement of this kind would signify that the present generation of his coreligionists as well as its immediate predecessors have been more successful in strengthening or recreating Islamic states than in reviving Islam. The modernist, on the other hand, would take it as an appraisal of the incomplete and uneven adjustment made to the revitalizing influences of the West.
