During the past three centuries, the Islamic world has lost its dominance and its leadership, and has fallen behind both the modern West and the rapidly modernizing Orient.
خلال القرون الثلاثة الماضية، فقد العالم الإسلامي هيمنته وقيادته، وسقط خلف الغرب الحديث والمشرق سريع الحداثة.