How do these social, political, economic, historic, and geographic forces intersect and form Islamic thought?

Given all the thinkers you have studied and understood in our class reader and through the various videos and articles that have been posted on our class Moodle site, what can you declare about the complexity of Islamic thought? Think about how Muslims understand their key sources of the Quran and Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad and the historical forces that dominate the environment which they live? How do these social, political, economic, historic, and geographic forces intersect and form Islamic thought?