Statesmen
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Europe is plainly in decline, politically and culturally, though most Europeans, blinded by their high living standards and the pretensions of their impotent
statesmen
, are happy to dress this up as progress.
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These were intellectuals or
statesmen
of the 19th century, and later, 20th century, which looked at Europe, basically, and saw that Europe has many things to admire, like science and technology.
These Muslim thinkers, intellectuals and
statesmen
of the 19th century, looked at Europe, saw these things, and said, "Why don't we have these things?"
That trend is generally called Islamic modernism, and it was advanced by intellectuals and statesmen, not just as an intellectual idea, though, but also as a political program.
Quite notably, this was the dominant trend in the early 20th century among Islamic thinkers and
statesmen
and theologians.
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