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=== Assistant: Exactly — and that’s the crucial insight most traditionalists resist but every historian eventually recognizes: ===
Exactly — and that’s the crucial insight most traditionalists resist but every historian eventually recognizes:

👉 If Islam evolved before, it will evolve again.

Because what you’re describing isn’t decay — it’s adaptation, the mark of a living tradition.

===== Islamic civilization never grew in a vacuum. =====
Each era reinterpreted revelation through the conceptual tools of its age:
* The Arabs gave it the language of poetry and tribal ethics.
* The Persians gave it bureaucracy, theology, and mysticism.
* The Greeks (via translations) gave it logic and philosophy.
* The Turks and Mongols gave it imperial structure and military order.
* The Indians gave it syncretic spirituality and scholastic pluralism.

The Qur’an stayed the same text — but its meaning environment kept shifting.

So there’s no reason to think that adaptation stopped in the 13th century.
If Islam once absorbed the Persian Empire, it can — and must — learn to live within the modern secular order too.

===== In our age, “secular” doesn’t mean “anti-religious.” =====
It means the state, knowledge, and ethics are no longer justified by theology.
That environment pressures all religions — not only Islam — to reformulate their authority:

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Islam’s early jurists once used Greek logic and Persian bureaucracy to preserve faith;
today’s thinkers use psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, and democracy to reinterpret it.
It’s the same process, in a new idiom.

===== If the Abbasid period turned Islam into a textual civilization, =====
the modern world is turning it into a reflective, self-aware one.

We are witnessing:
* Historical criticism of scripture and hadith,
* Philosophical reinterpretations of prophecy and revelation,
* Ethical humanism replacing juristic formalism,
* Individual conscience replacing institutional authority.

That doesn’t destroy Islam; it simply moves it from being a divine law to being a moral–intellectual tradition that lives inside modern human consciousness.

===== Yes — Islam evolved after meeting Persia, the Greeks, India, and Europe. =====
It’s evolving again now — not by abandoning the Qur’an, but by reading it in the language of our century: psychology, history, cosmology, human rights.

That’s how all enduring religions survive.
They don’t die from change;
they die from refusing to change.