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Quite a lot I am afraid. I was at a dinner party with somewhat of a scholar on history, Islam and Christianity, and he argued the point that Christianity and West and Islam (Arabic Islam) were joined at the hip, with each playing off the other, except in recent times, when one was ignored because it had become so culturally emaciated, and now is in a state of angry self denial about its own deep failings in the modern world. He also argued that the failure of Islam to have a reformation is because the Islamic golden age, as well as the Italian Renaisance, was largely about ignoring the texts, not reinvigorating them and animiating them with more measured philosophic wisdom. Of course I am no expert myself.