The Quran and the secular mind: A philosophy of Islam
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New York, NY
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Routledge
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Shabbir Akhtar
ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE
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1
CONTENTS NOTE
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Pt. I. Quranic Islam and the secular mind -- Locating Islam in the modern world -- Human reason and divine revelation -- The moral challenge of secular humanism -- Pt. II. An Arabic Quran: assessing its authority -- The book sent down -- The book as the frustrater -- The scope of the book -- The authority of the book -- Pt. III. A Quranic Lebenswelt in a secular age -- A sign is enough - for the wise -- Faith and the varieties of rejection -- Human nature and the Quran -- greater is God! -- Pt. IV. Conclusions -- Preface to a philosophy of Islam