The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam

This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Qur'an, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through Western analytical philosophy. It also explores how Islam can successfully engage with the challenges posed by secular thinking. The Quran and the Secular Mind will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic philosophy, philosophy of religion, Middle East studies, and political Islam.

Akhtar, Shabbir

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Routledge

Islam as Political Religion

This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation. Engaging with critics of modern Islam, Shabbir Akhtar sets out an agenda of what his religion is and could be as a political entity. Exploring the views and arguments of philosophical, religious and political thinkers, the author covers a raft of issues faced by Muslims in an increasingly secular society. Chapters are devoted to the Qur’an and Islamic literature; the history of Islam; Sharia law; political Islam; Islamic ethics; and political Islam’s evolving relationship with the West. Recommending changes which enable Muslims to move from their imperial past to a modest role in the power structures of today’s society, Akhtar offers a detailed assessment of the limitations and possibilities of Islam in the modern world. Providing a vision for an empowered yet rational Islam that distances itself from both Islamist factions and Western secularism, this book is an essential read for students and scholars of Islamic studies, religion, philosophy and politics.

Islam as Political Religion: The Future of an Imperial Faith

Is belief in the Christian God intellectually defensible? Is it even morally necessary? In this book, Dr. Shabbir Akhtar, himself a Muslim, examines and rejects one fideist and two reductionist defences of the rationality of Christian conviction in modern industrial society. He identifies another defensive position - «theological revisionism» - which has recently gained popularity with secularized Christian thinkers. Rejecting this as merely a conservative version of reductionism, he emphasizes the need for reviving the tradition of natural theology and, in doing so, a religious vision of the world.

Reason and the Radical Crisis of Faith (American University Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

An intelligent, erudite argument in which Mr. Akhtar (whose writings won the praise of Graham Greene and other British authors) challenges his fellow Muslims to bring their faith into the modern world. In the process he offers a clear and concise explanation of Islam's basic religious tenets.

A Faith for All Seasons: Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World (Johns Hopkins Series in Contemporary)

History

Europe

Ivan R. Dee

This is an unusual book with an unusual purpose. Shabbir Akhtar is an intelligent and erudite Muslim whose writings have attracted the attention of Graham Greene and other English authors. In A Faith for All Seasons he challenges his fellow Muslims to recognize that they live in a secular world of religious pluralism; that they must demonstrate to their critics that Islam is a progressive and responsive faith. In the course of arguing for a more congenial encounter with the modern world, Mr. Akhtar offers a remarkably clear and concise explanation of Islam's basic religious tenets. He discusses its rivalry with Christianity, Marxism, and secular liberalism as ideologies that also claim the allegiance of modern man. Censuring his co-religionists for the current intellectual paralysis in Islamic circles, he shows how believers can cultivate a reverent yet penetrating skepticism which teaches the ignorant, disturbs the orthodox, and agitates the indifferent.

A Faith for All Seasons: Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World (And Behavioral Science)

Be Careful with Muhammad: The Salman Rushdie Affair

Religion & Spirituality

Bellew Publishing Co. Ltd.

The Final Imperative of Islam is Liberation: The Liberation of the poor and the powerless. In the face of Western hypocrisies and double standards that underpin a new cold war between the West and Islam, and acceptance of powerlessness my muslim peoples would be an abrogation of responsibility — a rejection of the obligations of faith.\nThe Final Imperative is at once a thorough and original critique of Liberal Christian theology and its views of power and politics, and a revealing exploration of the positive emancipatory potential of Islam. Islam is not a fascist or totalitarian ideology but an evolving and dynamic moral commitment to engage and defeat economic and political exploitation. Powerlessness corrupts and absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Hence Islam can have no truck with those who would have the faithful reject power. How can Christians point the finger when they have allowed secular society to emasculate their churches. Like any other religion, Islam is open to abuse by those seeking to clothe their political bankruptcy in the robes of popular religion. But the Western demand that Islam renounce power is simply a hidden agenda for exploiting the wretched of the earth.\nShabbir Akhtar yet again challenges his readers to take a new look at the issues of the moment. At once scholarly and combative, this book is, as much for the lay reader as for the specialist, a keystone in the continuing debate.

The final imperative: An Islamic theology of liberation

Bellew Pub.

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The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam

The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam

Islam as Political Religion: The Future of an Imperial Faith

Islam as Political Religion

Reason and the Radical Crisis of Faith (American University Studies)

A Faith for All Seasons: Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World (Johns Hopkins Series in Contemporary)

A Faith for All Seasons: Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World (And Behavioral Science)

Be Careful with Muhammad: The Salman Rushdie Affair

The final imperative: An Islamic theology of liberation

The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam