by :Ahmed Khalil Introduction In his book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order , Samuel Huntington says: People are always tempted to divide people into us and them, the in-group and the other, our civilization and those barbarians. Scholars have analyzed the world in terms of the Orient and the Occident, North and South, center and periphery. Muslims have traditionally divided the world into Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb , the abode of peace and the abode of war. [1]