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Dark vignette Al-Masjid AL-Nabawi Door800x600x300.jpg. He is viewed as the final prophet of God in all the main branches of Islam. The Prophet Muhammad, Allah's Apostle, Last Prophet of Islam, and others. Why the Existing Western Concordances are Not to be Relied Upon' (PDF). Rodinson, Maxime (2002).
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Maxime Rodinson in his piece discusses how the Western perception of Islam especially on its academic studies have evolved throughout the history from the Middle Ages when the conflict manifested to the era of universalism of the 20th century. His main argument is that the image and studies of Islam have never been steady and constantly shaped not only by the interaction and transaction flows between the West and Islam but also the dynamic within Western societies itself especially when it shifted to the direction of more secular and individualized society.
Moreover, this products of social interaction had generated improper view and distortion in the past, and only recently it started to develop self-critique in small number of scholars that provides in more healthy scholarship. Therefore, as in other social sciences, Rodinson suggests that the accepted view of Islam even the ones resulted from academic setting should always be open for discussion, debate and redefinition.Rodinson categorizes the fluctuating relationship between the West and Muslims into several historical periods.
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