21 St Century And The Birth Of The United Nations Of Islam/Alaa M . Bayoumi معرفی و نقد

" Its object is to set up immediately various orgruis - --- -- ··such as a parliament, councils, committees, and corporate institutions and to make them fully operational by the year 2000; to achieve the goal of establish- ing the United States of Islam; and to strive for sustainable world peace (p. In the fourth part, "Elements of Unity," Siddiqui details the elements of Islamic unity, from the implementation of Islamic law to education, economics, the military, and foreign policy. The economic element of unity consists of developing inter-Islamic trade and establishing the Islamic Common Market, the Islamic Monetary Union, and the Islamic Development Bank. With regard to the development of inter-Islamic trade, Siddiqui reviews many important current statistics about the structure and geographical orientation of Muslim nations' trade. According to Siddiqui, the task of forming an Islamic common market faces several problems, such as its large size; the existing disparity in levels of income, wealth, resources, and state of development even between countries in the same geographical region; the underdevelopment of the infrastructure required to move goods between Muslim nations; and the existing trade alliances and treaties between the Islamic countries. Through its authority, the Muslim nations will be able to float the Islamic dinar as the common currency of the Muslim world for inter-Islamic trade. With regard to the political and military elements of Islamic unity, Siddiqui develops a plan for initiating the Islamic Alliance for Defense and a unified Islamic foreign policy.