And the last consequence is to be found in law.
Law is much more important than power, and this is a little bit similar to
the reformed Christianism that's to say in the reformed Christianism as I mentioned,
law is much more important than power as itself.
We can find a similar vision in this conception of political
order which is deriving from the Muslim history.
There is a kind of contradiction, because if Islam was created for
containing the risk of fragmentation the new
particle formula is much more oriented to protest and
to support power and in fighting against
fragmentation Islam is probably weakening human
power which isn't able to find its own legitimacy.
This is probably one of the sources of the possible
instability of all of the polygon systems
the which were considered constricted in the world
through this organization of Muslim culture.
Of course, ladies and gentlemen, we have to take into account the of Islam.
I tried to give the main axels of the Islam In a global perspective,
but we have to take into account several positions.
The first one will be between Sunnism and Shi'ism, as you know,
Shi'ism is the vision of Islam
coming from those who were stressing the importance of
inheritance in the legitimacy of the Calif.
The Calif was considered as descending from the prophets, and
Shi'ism was supporting a vision of politics which was exercised
by those who were descending from the prophet.
And so from this vision we can find a kind of valuing the role of hierarchy.
Valuing the role of hierarchy is giving a new
model to Islam and Islamic politics.
Whes Sunism doesn't that the Calif must be
chosen among the descendants of prophets and so is more decentralized and
giving more importance to the role of preachers and preacher networks.