The Challenge Facing Islamism in Confrontation with Secularism in the Arab World

Extensive influence of secular and atheistic beliefs to the Islam world in form of different ideologies has exerted strong effects on understanding of traditional and religious beliefs has raised considerable challenges on them. Also, abundance of currents of thoughts has shown that the relations between two concepts of Islam and Development have produced a great effect on the way they are formulated. The streams such as Arab civilization-oriented secular and westernized stream, Salafiyat-e Takfiri , Islamic civilization-oriented and Islamic fundamentalist ones are the outstanding movements of the Arab world among which the secular one, because of possessing media tools, has been to some extent effective in literature and discourse of the other movements. The secular ones are in pursue to achieve a pseudo-liberal or non-religious political regime and in this regard they benefit domestic and foreign supports. The Islamists are in seek of reviving Islamic Caliphate or a democracy inspired from religion; however, because of Takfiri Salafis actions they are encountered by severe accusations and the future developments will be indicative of more serious conflicts of these two streams.