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Mudjia, I don't know much about islamic civilization, history, hitoriography, but to expect resurgency of the civilization, the civilization itself must benefit humankind. Human beings are basically free, free to speak, make a living, persue happiness and all these rights must be stipulated or at least, put down in constitutions of all nations. As people embrace it, then value it, people will live by it and eventually islamic renaissance will be on the way. I agree with Samuel P. Huntington on few points but not all. He hypothesizes that the fundemental source of conflic in this new world will not be primarily ideological or economic. To me economic is more powerful force. if one is hungry he or she must eat, or to do anything just to satisfy your thist or hunger. People are willing to find a way to get out of that kind of predicament and it goes beyond anything to survive ( the fittest survive: Darwin). He states that the great divisions among humankind and dominating source of conflict will be cultural, again i don't agree. I've been living in the USA half of my adult life, it seems to me that those racial, cultural lines almost dissapear in this country. case in point, Obama got elected president of the United States of America, the voters don't care about his religous, cultural ethnic background, we just want him to fix the nation's economy. But i agree the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations... the clash of civilization, the battle lines of the future because a civilization is a culyural entity.