The post-Westphalian World and Muslims’ Will by Abid Ullah Jan

The world is in a state of total chaos. The 350-year reign of the nation-state system is coming to an end. The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty-Years War, also ended the millennial domination of the ideal of universal empire and creed, personified in the priest-king, god-king or divine emperor. In the West, the ideal was embodied for a millennium and a half in the Roman Empire in all its transformations over time, and since the fourth century AD in the Christian religion, embodied by the Papacy.