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Secularism, Islam and modernity : selected essays of Alam Khundmiri
- Title
- Secularism, Islam and modernity : selected essays of Alam Khundmiri / edited with an introduction by M.T. Ansari.
- Author
- K̲h̲vundmīrī, ʻĀlam.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ansari, M. T., 1965-
- Description
- 308 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A Critical Examination of Islamic Traditionalism with Reference to the Demands of Modernization -- God -- The Contemporary Debate: the Islamic Perspective -- Some Problems of Inter-Religious Understanding -- Religion and Its Application to Modern Life: the Islamic Problem -- Man's Nature and Destiny: the Philosophic View in Islam -- Al-Ghazali's Repudiation of Causality: the Destruction of Philosophical Inquiry in Islam -- 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 -- Iqbal on Human Knowledge -- Iqbal and Indian Sufism -- Iqbal on Time and Self -- Iqbal and the Existentialist Thinkers: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger -- The Political Philosophy of Iqbal -- Secularism: Western and Indian -- 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 (with special reference to the Indian Muslim community) -- Contemporary Religious Situation: An Existential Analysis
- ISBN
- 0761995099
- 9780761995098
- 0761995617
- 9780761995616
- 8178290286
- 9788178290287
- 8178290391
- 9788178290393
- LCCN
- 00068793
- OCLC
- ocm45583475
- 45583475
- SCSB-1228275
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library