Machine generated contents note: I. The Traditional Self-Image Of Islam -- 1. The unchanging static world -- 2. The finality of Islam -- 3. The self-sufficiency of Islam -- 4. Islam in history -- 5. The idealization of Muhammad and early Islam -- II. The Religious Institution And Its Decline -- 1. The religious institution at the zenith of its power -- 2. Totalitarian strategies of the religious institution -- 3. The loss of legislative and judicial responsibilities -- 4. Changes in education -- 5. The present position -- III. The Beginnings Of Islamic Resurgence -- 1. Responses to the European impact -- 2. The erosion of the traditional self-image -- 3. Conservative reformers and activists -- (a). Muhammad Abduh -- (b). Hasan al-Banna -- (c). Mawdudi -- (d). Colonel Qadhafi -- (e). The Ahmadiyya sect -- (f). Concluding remark -- IV. The Liberal Search For A New Identity -- 1. The early liberals -- 2. Contemporary liberal thinking -- V. The Self-Image And Contemporary Problems
Note continued: 1. The recovery of a truer self-image -- 2. Intellectual reconstruction -- (a). The linguistic expression of religious truth -- (b). The human element in revelation -- (c). The uniqueness of Islam -- (d). The acceptance of historico-critical methods -- (e). The acceptance of Western science -- 3. The linking of religion and politics -- (a). The changing shape of the Islamic polity -- (b). The legitimation of rule -- (c). The relation of religion to politics -- 4. International politics -- (a). The perception of a hostile world -- (b). Islam in the world of nations -- 5. Social issues -- (a). Opening the gate of Ijtihad -- (b). Some particular social problems -- (c). Human rights -- (d). The position of women -- 6. Islam and other religions -- 7. Towards a truer self-image -- VI. The Iranian Experience -- 1. Shiism in Iran -- 2. The Iranian religious institution -- 3. The preparation for revolution -- 4. The revolutionary self-image -- VII. Epilogue.