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A 9 page paper which examines the clash between Islamic and Western concepts that resulted from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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places bordering the mosque, such as the market. And they trod in the mosque with their shoes, carrying swords and rifles. Then they scattered in its courtyard and
its main praying area and tied their horses to the qibla. They ravaged the students quarters and ponds, smashing the lamps and chandeliers and breaking up the bookcases of
the students and the scribes. They plundered whatever they found in the mosque... They treated the books and Quranic volumes as trash, throwing them on the ground, stamping on
them with their feet and shoes. Furthermore they soiled the mosque, blowing their spit in it, and urinating and defecating in it" (Progler, 1999). No, this is not a
contemporary quote describing Muslim genocide in Bosnia (Progler, 1999). It is nineteenth-century historian and respected Muslim scholar Abdul-Rahman al-Jabartis depiction of Napoleons invasion of Egypt in the summer of
1798 (Progler, 1999). When the French military commander extraordinaire set his sights on Egypt, he saw only a strategic territory his fledgling empire needed to control. He was
supremely confident not only in his own abilities, but also in the superiority of the West. It never occurred to him that in Egypt, he would not be able
to simply occupy and conquer as he had previously. For, here was a firmly entrenched religion that was far different from the Western concept, which had begun embracing the
democratic notion of the separation of church and state. What Napoleon failed to understand was that Islam could not assimilate into the Western community because it was, unlike Christianity,
"more than a set of religious beliefs and practices" (Davidson, 1998). It is, quite simply a way of life that is deeply rooted in historical tradition (Davidson, 1998).
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