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Hodgson positioned Islam as a spiritual endeavor with a profound moral vision—on par with other world religions. He also reimagined the terminology of
Islamic history and religion, coining terms like Islamdom (playing off "Christendom"). Hodgson also resituated the geographical locus of Islam; he
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of his day. Hodgson painted a global picture of world history, in which the "Rise of Europe" was the end-product of millennia-long evolutionary developments in
Eurasian society; modernity could conceivably have originated somewhere else. Indeed, he accepted that
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of the fourteenth century . His explanations for the divergence are rooted in the idea of a 'great
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