Relaţiile islamului cu teritoriile româneşti
A famous and contemporary prophecy of the French writer Andre Malraux (1901-1976) sa ys: „The XXI century will be religious or not at all”. We do not know if he referred a t Islam or not but from the three monotheistic religions today: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the evolution of the latter seems to incline the balance towards a century preoccupied of religious kneading. Islam, the youngest of the three monotheistic religions proves to have an exceptional immunity to the tendency of desacralization of modern societies among which coexists. Like all the other religions, Islam was not exempted from fractures and inner fights which led to what we have today: Sunni and Shia Islam. There is another split that has to do with the Romanian lands: Arab and Turkish Islam. The last one represents the way by which the Islam went through the Romanian lands around the XIII century. A question that deserves an answer- the model of the historical good cohabitation between Christians and Muslims of Romania will remain the same in the context of the new Arab Islamic newcomers ?
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