And the last consequence is to be found in love.
Love is much more important than power and
this is a little bit similar to the Reformed Christianism.
That's to say, in the Reformed Christianism, as I mentioned,
love is much more important than power as itself.
We can find a similar vision in this conception of political order,
which is deriving from the Muslim history.
There is a kind of contradiction, because if Islam was created for
containing the risk of fragmentation, the new political formula is much more
oriented to protest and to support power.
And in fighting against fragmentation, Islam is probably weakening
human power, which isn't able to find its own legitimacy.
This is probably one of the sources of the political
instability of all the political system which
were conceived and constrictive in the world,
through this organization of Muslim culture.
Of course ladies and gentlemen,
you have to take into account the plurality of Islam.
I tried to give the main axis of
Islam in a global perspective.
But we have to take into account several positions.
The first one would be between Sunnism and Shiism.
As you know, Shiism is a vision of Islam
coming from those who were stressing
the importance of inheritance in
the legitimacy of the caliph.
The caliph was considered as descending from the prophets and
Shiism was supporting a vision of politics which was exercised
by those we were descending from the prophet.
And so from this vision,
we can find a kind of valuing the role of hierarchy.
Valuing the role of hierarchy is giving a new model to Islam, and Islam in politics.
When Sunnism doesn't consider that the caliph
must be chosen among the descendants of prophets, and
so is more decentralized, and giving more importance
to the role of preachers and preacher networks.
