Islam vs. Modernity?

Turkey or Iran? The societies of those two countries form the social/political models currently on offer in the Middle East, and not only to the Muslim Middle East.  From Syria to Kyrgyzstan they confront each other, not as open enemies, but as rivals for influence in determining the shape and conduct of countries in the region.

For across the Arab world the death of the great 20^th century ideologies left behin