The Quran and the secular mind a philosophy of Islam /

• Main Author: Akhtar, Shabbir, 1960-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, c2008.
• Subjects: Qurʼan > Evidences, authority, etc.; Qurʼan > Hermeneutics.; Islam and secularism.; Islamic philosophy.; Islam > Philosophy.; RELIGION > Theology. > Islam; Electronic books.
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This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Quran, and in particular how they can be interogated and understood through western analytical philosophy. It is also explores how Islam can successfully engage with the challenges posed by secular thinking. The...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I. Quranic Islam and the secular mind. 1. Locating Islam in the modern world
• - 2. Human reason and divine revelation
• - 3. The moral challenge of secular humanism
• Part II. an Arabic Quran : assessing its authority. 4. The book sent down
• - 5. The book as 'the frustrater'
• - 6. The scope of the book
• - 7. The authority of the book
• PartIII. a Quranic Lebenswelt in a secular age. 8. A sign is enough
• for the wise
• - 9. Faith and the varieties of rejection
• - 10. Human nature and the Quran
• - 11. 'Greater is God!'
• Part IV. Conclusions. 12. Preface to a philosophy of Islam.