Islam is essentially the religion of rural-dwellers, who were never forced to suppress their animalistic urges in accordance with secular law. As it has been rightly noted in Mansoor Moaddel’s article The Study of Islamic Culture and Politics: An Overview and Assessment: “While Christianity was forced to recognize the authority of Roman law, in Islam, in contrast, there is no such recognition, hence, no legislative function.Īnd without legislative function, there is no need for legislative institutions nor for any principle of representation” (364). The reason why today’s Islam is being commonly referred to as ‘alive religion’ (as opposed to the ‘dead religion’ of Christianity), is that Arabic oecumena has never been a part of Roman Empire. In our paper, we will aim to explore this thesis even further. Thus, there can be very little doubt as to essentially anti-Islamic sounding of A Thousand Splendid Suns. The reading of Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, substantiates the validity of our introductory statement perfectly well because, in this novel, the author had succeeded in exposing the very concept of religion (in this particular case, Islam) as deriving out of people’s existential/anthropological primitivism. In its turn, this explains why the strength of people’s beliefs in God is being counter-exponential to the quality of their living standards – in poor agricultural countries, citizens’ well-being depends almost exclusively on good weather, and the less there is good weather (the poorer are the people), the harder they try to appease God/Gods by following a variety of ‘divine’ but utterly meaningless ‘commandments’. The reason for this is simple – the continuous post-industrialization and secularization of Western societies results in these societies’ members growing to be able to rightly identify one’s strong sense of religiosity as the ultimate proof of such individual’s endowment with a primitive, rurally-based mentality. tribally-religious barbarianism’ is much more applicable, within the context of discussing this topic. Nevertheless, as time goes by, more and more people in Western countries come to the realization of a simple fact that the framework ‘civilization vs.
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