FOREWORD AND PREFACE

Crisis

in the

Muslim Mind

ʻAbdulHamīd A. AbūSulaymān

translation by

Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo

The International Institute of Islamic Thought

Herndon, Virginia USA

CHAPTER ONE

• Contemporary Islamic Asalāh: The Only Solution -- 1
• The Historical Roots of the Crisis -- 22
• The Crux of the Crisis and the Future of the Ummah -- 28

CHAPTER TWO

• The Traditional Methodology Of Islamic Thought:Assessment and Critique -- 35
• Shari’ah and Non-Shari’ah Sciences -- 38
• Neglect of the Social Sciences -- 43
• The Conflict Between Reason and Revelation -- 46
• Our Intellectual Heritage: Past, Present, and Future -- 59

CHAPTER THREE

• Principles in the Methodology of Islamic Thought -- 65
• The Basic Concepts:
• The purposeful Nature of Creation -- 79
• Objectivity of Truth -- 81
• Freedom -- 83
• Tawakkul -- 91
• Causality -- 95
• Islamic Methodology: Means and Application -- 98

CHAPTER FOUR

• Requirements for Establishing the Islamic Civilizational Sciences -- 105
• Classifying Islamic Texts -- 106
• Dimensions of Existence -- 113
• The Impartiality of Truth -- 119

CHAPTER FIVE

• The Premises of the Social Sciences -- 123
• Islamization and the Science of Education -- 125
• Islamization and Political Science -- 132
• Islam, Science, and Technology --141

CHAPTER SIX

• Islam and the Future -- 145
• Islamization and Academic Institutions -- 149
• The Future Course of Humanity -- 153
• Islamization is the Issue of the Ummah -- 158

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