Through Muslim ’maps’ of the modern ’intellectual’ landscape, the author challenges two fronts: young Muslims to become familiar with their religion and cultural roots and to gain an understanding of the modern world from the Islamic point of view. This guide for the Muslim to the modern world—the first of its kind in any language—presents the eternal truths of Islam as well as Western religious and intellectual tradition as they confront each other in today’s world. The Islamic perspective is so unique that NPR (National Public Radio)’s Robert Siegel discussed the work with the author on the “All Things Considered” program.
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Reviewed by Robert Siegel of NPR's All Things Considered, the interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr won the award for the best radio interview of the year. The author says in this brilliant work, The West has produced many orientalists who have studied Islam from their own point of view, but the Islamic world has produced very few occidentalists who can study the various aspects of Western civilization from its science to art, from religion to social behavior, from the Islamic point of view. Through these Muslim maps of the modern intellectual landscape, the author challenges two fronts: young Muslims to become familiar with their religion and cultural roots and to gain an understanding of the modern world from the Islamic point of view. This guide for the Muslim to the modern worldthe first of its kind in any languagepresents the eternal truths of Islam as well as Western religious and intellectual tradition as they confront each other in today's world. -- Robert Siegel of NPR's All Things Considered
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born in Tehran in a family of traditional scholars and physicians. After receiving his early education in Iran, he came to America where he studied physics, the history of science and philosophy at MIT and Harvard from which he received his doctorate. Nasr was professor at Tehran University and founder and first president of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy. He is presently University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University.
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By ahmet
Format:Paperback
This book excellently deals with every subject it takes up. I have read many books on history of philosophy, islamic history, etc. And this book seems to be writen by somebody, who perefectly transcends the final word that has been said on any subject the book deals with. Actually, Nasr is my hero since I have read his books (since last week.)
By Omar E.
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As a teenage Muslim I find this book great Spruatily and Mentally. I recomend this book for Muslims and Non-Muslim Teens.
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It is a favorite conceit of Muslims to claim that the West lacks a religious or moral component to its culture. Islam rewards outward conduct, such as repetitive and mindless prayers and the wearing of particular costumes as an act of holiness. When Muslims don't see Westerners following their outward habits of holiness they conclude no spirituality exists.
Islam is in danger because of the clearly false tenets that it can no longer defend in the light of day. Case in point, the Bukhari Hadith in which Mohammed expressly and unambiguously states that "women are dificient in intellect." This is what is known in science as a testable hypothesis, it can be tested and proven true or false. Everywhere this assertion is proven false, over and over and over again. Given this, Mohammed's credibility is shattered. This is the culture that sanctifies domestice violence, polygamy and the suppression of the female intellect. The uprising of Islamic fervor is just a protest against the end of an era, an unsustainable ideology coming to an end, all for the world's good.
Islam is in danger because of the clearly false tenets that it can no longer defend in the light of day. Case in point, the Bukhari Hadith in which Mohammed expressly and unambiguously states that "women are dificient in intellect." This is what is known in science as a testable hypothesis, it can be tested and proven true or false. Everywhere this assertion is proven false, over and over and over again. Given this, Mohammed's credibility is shattered. This is the culture that sanctifies domestice violence, polygamy and the suppression of the female intellect. The uprising of Islamic fervor is just a protest against the end of an era, an unsustainable ideology coming to an end, all for the world's good.
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Absurd!
Honestly speaking, if producing such materials helps to alleviate the obsessive inferiority complex of Muslim writers like this author and other readers and sympathizers, before... Read more
Published on April 24 2003
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Every English speaking Muslim should have this book!
This book by Dr. Nasr is a book which was waiting to be written and it could not have been written by a more qualified person. Read more
Published on Jun 16 2001 by Mr. A. Jehangir
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For all young Muslims this book is a must
I believe that for Muslims all over the world but especially those of us who live and are educated in the West it is imperative to understand our own intellectual and religous... Read more
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