We are trying to give a model of a modern Muslim society.
The term does not have to be specific to the Muslim society.
The political and social system in Muslim society would have taken a dim view of such a challenge.
Islam has been around for 1,400 years, and need not be chosen by a Muslim society.
Anyone with some knowledge of Muslim societies could have predicted their reaction.
What attracts them to him is not his vision of the ideal Muslim society, which few would want to live in.
Here he witnessed the development and rapid change of Muslim societies.
But some seem to have given up on the idea that the West will ever accept a Muslim society.
Development of the backward Muslim society was the central point of his thinking.
In any case, it seems that they were considered as outsiders by the mainstream elements of Muslim society.