THE FEATURES OF MODERNIZATION OF RELIGION AND STATE IN MIDDLE EAST

Abstract

Defining the role of islam in soсial development of arab countries – extensive independent problem,
which is important in modern life conditions. Arab-muslim world with its long history and culture impregnated
with complex and not balanced systems of co-operation of many factors: religious, political,
economic, social, ethnic. The ambiguity and inconsistency of different development models in the Arab
States was often confirmed by the practice of the last decades. Secularist tendencies, the penetration of
Western ideas and values in the public life of Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa combined
with the increasing influence of traditional concepts, the revitalization of religious-political opposition
in the countries of study region. The possibility of the dominance of certain political attitudes are
largely determined not only by external influences, this category of “third world” countries, the domestic
climate, but still powerful influence of the Muslim religion. Turn to Islam and the supporters of a secular
way of development, insisting on the need to adapt religious observance to changing domestic and
world situation. Islamization of various areas of social and political life, the relationship of religion with
the political culture of the Arab and other Muslim countries was widely observed in previous periods of
development, and in the last two decades.