of the Indian subcontinent. In fact, the greatest concentration of Muslims is in the Indian region, "where the combined Muslim population of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India is more than 240 million people and is increasing every day" (Parrinder 463).
Islamic history is more of a conceptualization than a coherent historical phenomenon. Since Islam is made up of many countries and many diverse cultures, there are different historical considerations present. In the words of one Islamic scholar,
the world is taken seriously because history determines
man's eternal destiny . . . The world with which one deals had been given its substance by God; in turn, the way that one deals with it as a person will give substance to one's ultimate fate, infinite beatitude, and infinite horror turning on how one plays one's role in history. History is ethically important; and ethics is cosmically important. Some things one fo
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