The links between East and West, dating back to ancient times, which had been varied through the ages, some links were cultural, some economical and some political. The links between the East and West, which were set during the last two centuries, in its cultural part, and its impact on Islam in particular, were marked, due to the particular and natural circumstances of that connection with the West, that was different to all of the previous conditions and circumstances. The connection of Islam with other civilizations and cultures was always a contact of the stronger to the weaker one, which was after equal contact, but the contact of Islam with the West in this recent period of time, was a contact of a weaker to a stronger, and "the weaker always being fond of emulation clicks of the logo, uniform, and every thing and in his every step copying the stronger one by the nature."