Century in sentence

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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?"

He has a book, "Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age," and the Liberal Age, he defines as 19th century and early 20th century.

Quite notably, this was the dominant trend in the early 20th century among Islamic thinkers and statesmen and theologians.

But there is a very curious pattern in the rest of the 20th century, because we see a sharp decline in this Islamic modernist line.

But there is a curious question: If Islamic modernism was so popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, why did Islamism become so popular in the rest of the 20th century?

Just look at the political history of the 20th century, and you see things have changed a lot.

In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident.

In the early 20th century, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the whole Middle East was colonized.

So in the 20th century, you had this vicious cycle in the Arab world, where you have a dictatorship suppressing its own people, including the Islamic pious, and they're reacting in reactionary ways.

And I believe that the Islamic modernism which began in the 19th century, but which had a setback in the 20th century because of the political troubles of the Muslim world, is having a rebirth.

Now, what amazes me is, we have known about global warming for over a century.

But with more people and greater prosperity around the world, that number's going to grow to between two and four billion cars by mid century.

Today, we can write a word such as TED in Egyptian hieroglyphics and in cuneiform script, because both of these were deciphered in the 19th century.

The Mayans started speaking to us in the 20th century, but the Indus civilization remains silent.

And then we moved on into an era in the 19th century with the rise of a European nation-state where identities and allegiances were defined by ethnicity.

We have had a century of very nice, smart application developers.

This, in fact, would be a better building if we put mosaic portraits of Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and all the other great despots of the 20th century on the side of the building, because then we'd honestly be saying what the building is really communicating to us.

And so what you see fairly early, in the mid-19th century, is this idea that we now have to have an antidote to the industrial city, which is going to be life in the country for everybody.

Because it hasn't delivered what it's been promising for half a century now.

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally.

Now if we look forward a bit to the 19th century, we find a new style of technology.

And the first people who saw that were the telegraphers of the mid-19th century, who were the original hackers.

And this was an important thing about 19th century technology, that all these relationships among parts could make the most brilliant idea fall apart, even when judged by the most expert people.

Now there is something else, though, in the early 20th century that made things even more complicated.

So the 20th century, then, saw how much more complex reality was, but it also saw a positive side.

One other very positive consequence of 20th century technology, though, was the way in which other kinds of calamities could lead to positive advances.

At the turn of the century, the Internet takes off, reality television has taken hold.

We know that's wrong, because we conducted two great natural experiments in the 20th century to see if geography mattered more than institutions.

The ancestor of the modern corporation, the City of London Corporation, existed in the 12th century.

Modern medicine in the late 19th century began to make major breakthroughs against the infectious diseases that killed a lot of people.

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