Most people don't realize that most Muslims aren't even in the Middle East, they're in Indonesia and India. I don't think it was 50-60 states, but yeah there was a book that was comparing the splitting of countries in the Middle East to the fall of the Roman Empire. It took Europe a couple of centuries to recover and to create stable nation states, so we shouldn't expect the Middle East to be peaceful and stable any time soon.
I went to a lecture for my senior seminar about Shaykh Nazim and Muslim leadership. If you're interested in Muslim leadership you should read about him and Shaykh Khalid.
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