Globalization, Islam and the Indigenization of Knowledge

Abstract

The Western social – history, geography, economics, political science, sociology and anthropology – were all developed under the impetus provided by romanticism. All of them, each in its own way, are based upon the ethnocentric view that nation, or ethnic identity … is the ultimate unit of analysis and value. When they speak of ‘society’ or ‘social order’, they mean their own national entity or order … . Sociology boldly affirms the ethnocentric thesis because it deals directly with society and social order. Political science follows. Western geography and history can conceive of the world only as a satellite of the West, the world revolving around England, America, France, Germany or Italy as its heart and core.