The first issue that needs to be taken into consideration is the element of extreme cohesion that the Islamic world has: the Qur'an. According to the Islamic world, the Qur'an is the "literal, hence absolutely true, word of God as revealed to the Prophet Mohammed"1. In my opinion, the direct and most important implication, both in terms of internal politics and international relation, is the creation and practice of Islamic law, as one of the three fundamental systems of law (the other two are Anglo-Saxon and the Roman system). In many Islamic countries, like the Islamic Republic of Iran, the judicial system is strictly organized around the sayings of the Qur'an and these are often strictly applied in everyday life.

It seemed important to mention at least this particularity of the Islamic world in order to emphasize and justi

This should be believed only natural, since the importance of religion and of the spiritual leader in Islam is so great. In many ways, the political leader is strictly connected to his religious identity, given the fact that the separation between church and state is not existent here and that the religious basis is key to all political decisions.

fy the fact that in some of the Islamic states where the religion plays the most important role, namely Iran for example, the intrinsic relationship between the political leader and the religious leader is extremely powerful. It is often the case here that they are one and the same person.

The export of the Iranian Revolution was later attempted in nearby states of the region, especially in Iraq, in Syria or Algeria and the only reason that it failed to materialize to the degree it had in Iran was that the international power did not see it as strategically fit. On the other hand, the fact that political Islam or the political component of Islam had significant sympathies in the area must have relied on something, a common element in all regions of the Broader Middle East and Northern Africa.

This was strictly related to post-colonialism and to the conditions that developed in this area after the collapse of the British and French Empires, after the Second World War. Naturally, the void of power that was produced in the region had to be filled with something. In countries like Egypt, Syria or Iraq, an experimental Arab socialism was attempted2, relying on the friendship and advice from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Its failure left, in many cases, "massive corruption and overreliance on coercion"3. Iraq comes to mind as the best example, but Egypt has never enjoyed demo

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