Islam's Decline as a Driving Force Throughout the World in the Last

question 40

Multiple Choice

Islam's decline as a driving force throughout the world in the last 1800s occurred mainly because

• A) most ordinary Muslims feared contamination by the West.
• B) Ottoman sultans formed a pact and refused to let their people become educated.
• C) the Muslim world rejected, for the most part, Western science and education.
• D) Islam became so fundamentalist that converting people to the faith had become problematic.
• E) Ottoman sultans were distracted at home by subjects who were rebelling against the new religious extremism.

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