The Mecca Pact, by excluding Western powers and grounding its legitimacy in Islamic solidarity, seeks to avoid that fate. The Mecca Pact represents a deliberate secession from the OIC’s universalist pretensions, an acknowledgment that the future of Muslim defence cooperation lies in smaller, more cohesive, and more operationally capable groupings. Moreover, the Mecca Pact is a harbinger of a multipolar future. The Mecca Pact is a bold and hopeful experiment, a testament to the audacity of its architects. The Mecca Pact is a beautiful, fragile, and perhaps doomed attempt to build a new order in a region that has known too much war.