place in the West and, after September 11, in particular, in the United States. He is one of the signatories of A Common Word, an open letter by islamic scholars to christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding.

Dr. Hofmann was born a Catholic, but converted to Islam in 1980. His conversion was met with some controversy due to his high profile in the German government. He converted to Islam as a result of what he witnessed in the Algerian War of Independence, his fondness for Islamic art, and what he saw as contradictions in Paulist Christian doctrine.

Dr. Hofmann served in the German Foreign Service from 1961 to 1994. He first served in Algeria as a specialist on issues concerning nuclear defense. He went on to serve as Director of Information for NATO at Brussels from 1983 to 1987, Ambassador to Algeria from 1987 to 1990, and Ambassador to Morocco from 1990 to 1994.

The book \u201cModern Islamic polity in the Making\u201d is book that is based on Dr. Murad Wilfred Hoffman three lectures that he served in connection with Khurram Murad Memorial Lectures plus one lecture that he delivered at Islamic Research Institute (IIU) Islamabad. This book is based on the concept of clash of civilizations, western apprehensions about Islam and intellectual challenges faced by Muslims in the modern world.

We are living in a complex world where there are so much clashes contradictions between ideologies, political systems, cultural and social attitudes. The world is divided into different regions and zones based on geographical and cultural facts. According to this Europe is regarded as centre of the world not only in terms of geography but also in term of its educational, societal, cultural and social values. In fact Europe is regarded as the centre or heart of world heritage. This assumption has played a big role in creating a huge gap between the developed and under-developed world. The western world assumes Islam as backward religion and they regard Muslim countries as those that are difficult to be there in the list of developed countries. The negative thoughts of western world against Islam and Muslims lead them to interpret movements in Muslim world as threat to secular western world.

Huntington theory is a proposed theory about clash of different civilizations. It assumes conflict between different civilizations especially West and Islam. It generated a lot of discussion on the essential and significant differences between Eastern and western culture. Besides there are common features between the two civilizations, many have criticized this theory. Islam from the very beginning didn\u2019t recognized political or geographical boundaries. It attempts to create unity of vision between religions, unified personality of men, unity and mankind.

Some modern scholars or so called western Islamic scholar are so eager to make Islam a modern religion that they end up at westernizing the Islam instead of Islamizing the west. Instead to change the behavior of the west against Islam they are changing their behavior according to the behavior of the west. Some also think that Islam has failed through its reforming process after the European model. Muslims area always distinguished between state and religion. Its quite imposition to make Muslims follow a model that has been failed itself by the west. The west in course of eliminating gender differences and human values are now trapped. It is difficult for them now to free themselves. It is now obvious that satisfaction and success lies in the heart of Islam. It is not Islam that is going wrong on road to secularism but it is the west that is going towards it. The reason behind the failure of Muslims is that they are now Muslim by name not by deeds. It is difficult to find a single person out of hundreds who is a true Muslim. Now days Muslims are not able to even do little of five basics of Islam i.e. Kalma, Namaz, Fast, Zakat and Hajj. Such Muslims should ask a question to themselves that if they are Muslims, or if Islam has said them to do what they are doing? Truly not and if any Muslim calls for these rituals then he is regarded as extremist, fundamentalist and even terrorist. Western governments say such Muslims to be moderate progressive Muslim or in other way westernized Muslim.

Islam is getting more and more popularity in western societies and large ration is converting to Islam. Islam is rapidly advancing and it might be the leading ideology of the 21st century. But there are certain factors that can affect or cause hurdle in the way of it. The reason for this is that there is a large difference between what Muslim say and what they do, what Islam is and how they act, What Islam teaches and how Muslims show by their behavior to the world. Muslims, especially new generation is ignorant about Islam\u2019s true sense. They don\u2019t even know the basics and fundamental concepts of Islam. That is why it is extremely difficult for them to convince others. There are lots of Muslim Mullahs who don\u2019t know about Islam and they pose Islam as a rigid and legalistic religion. Islam is ac complete religion for everyone in the world. To know is