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The Return of Islam” (Commentary magazine, January 1976) is an article by British-American historian Bernard Lewis.

It was visionary in the sense that the Iranian Revolution still had to happen.

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"As medieval Christian man could only conceive of religion in terms of a trinity, so his modern descendant can only conceive of politics in terms of a theology or, as we now say, ideology, of left-wing and right-wing forces and factions."
"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things which are God's."
"The Fatherland of a Muslim is the place where the Holy Law of Islam prevails."
"A more striking illustration of the religious limits of autocracy occurred in Syria in the spring of 1967. On April 25 of that year, the Syrian official army magazine, Jaysh al-Sha'b, the Army of the People, published an article by a young officer named Ibrahim Khalas entitled "The Means of Creating a New Arab Man." The only way, according to this article, to build Arab society and civilization was to create
a new Arab socialist man, who believes that God, religion, feudalism, capitalism, and all the values which prevailed in the pre-existing society were no more than mummies in the museums of history.... There is only one value; absolute faith in the new man of destiny ... who relies only on himself and on his own contribution to humanity . . . because he knows that his inescapable end is death and nothing beyond death ... no heaven and no hell.... We have no need of men who kneel and beg for grace and pity."
"Thus, in the manual of orientation of the Supreme Command of the Egyptian forces, issued in 1965, the wars in the Yemen and against Israel are presented in terms of a jihad or holy war for God against the unbelievers. "
"There have been two recent wars in which Muslims fought against non-Muslims—the Turkish landing in Cyprus and the subsequent fighting, and the Syrian and Egyptian war against Israel in October 1973."
"s a resurgent Islam prepared to tolerate a non-Islamic enclave, whether Jewish in Israel or Christian in Lebanon, in the heart of the Islamic world? "

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