Abstract
Defining the role of islam in soсial development of arab countries – extensive independent problem,which is important in modern life conditions. Arab-muslim world with its long history and culture impregnatedwith complex and not balanced systems of co-operation of many factors: religious, political,economic, social, ethnic. The ambiguity and inconsistency of different development models in the ArabStates was often confirmed by the practice of the last decades. Secularist tendencies, the penetration ofWestern ideas and values in the public life of Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa combinedwith the increasing influence of traditional concepts, the revitalization of religious-political oppositionin the countries of study region. The possibility of the dominance of certain political attitudes arelargely determined not only by external influences, this category of “third world” countries, the domesticclimate, but still powerful influence of the Muslim religion. Turn to Islam and the supporters of a secularway of development, insisting on the need to adapt religious observance to changing domestic andworld situation. Islamization of various areas of social and political life, the relationship of religion withthe political culture of the Arab and other Muslim countries was widely observed in previous periods ofdevelopment, and in the last two decades.