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Secularism, Islam and Modernity
Selected Essays of Alam Khundmiri
First Edition
Edited by:
- M T Ansari - M S University of Baroda, Vadodara
April 2001 | 308 pages | SAGE India
This book uses the writings of Syed Alam Khundmiri to look at issues such as: Islamic traditionalism in the context of meodernization; Islamic theology and politics; and Western and Indian notions of secularism.
Kadir Zaman
Foreword
M T Ansari
Introduction
Asghar Ali Engineer
Perspectives on Islam and Philosophy
PART ONE
A Critical Examination of Islamic Traditionalism with Reference to the Demands of Modernization
God - The Contemporary Debate
Some Problems of Inter-Religious Understanding
Religion and Its Application to Modern Life
PART TWO
Man's Nature and Destiny
Al-Ghazali's Repudiation of Causality
The Meaning of Reason in the Systems of Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina
Eastern Aristotelians and Time
The Tension between Morality and Law in Islam
PART THREE
Iqbal on Human Knowledge
Iqbal and Indian Sufism
Iqbal on Time and Self
Iqbal and the Existentialist Thinkers
The Political Philosophy of Iqbal
PART FOUR
Secularism
Some Distinctive Features of Indian Sufism
The Changing Concept of Man in Sufi Literature
Islam and Fascism
Islam and Democracy
Obscurantism and the Indian Situation
Contemporary Religious Situation: An Existential Analysis
Published Works of Alam Khundmiri
Index