Thanks. Your scholarship contributes new insight into the dilemna that Islam finds itself. The statement about too many petro dollars is so true. I am hoping that the Islam religion goes through a reformation like the Christian Church. Our grandchildren may see some excitement.
Islam has gone through reformation. The Sufi (term refers to rough woolen clothes) turned Islam away from ever more wives and concubines, ever more luxury, to meditation and a pursuit of balance in one's relations with G-d and man.
The Wahabi are the counter reformers, or rather, more like Jim Jones would be to christianity.