Modernity / Western Philosophies

The philosophical, cultural, political, economic and social impact of the domination of the modern West continues in one way or another through the width and breadth of the Muslim world, threatening not only the traditional institutions of Islamic society, but Islamic religion itself. Many are alienated from Islam as a result of the crushing influence of alien ideologies, whilst others react mostly with emotional outbursts and occasional violence. This book, written by one of contemporary Islamic scholarship's best minds, addresses primarily the Muslim youths in a language which is fairly simple rather than being excessively scholarly, to be able to respond to the challenges posed by the modern world and its current ideologies.

Arabic translation of Maulan Thanvi's book on answer to modernism.

This revised edition of the critically acclaimed collection of essays by today's most eloquent authority on the philosophy of religion explores the limits of science. Powerful and anecdotal, this classic critique of postmodern thinking points to a way out of the "dark wood" where science has stranded us . New introduction and new essays.

This book investigates differences between East and West in connection with the preservation of traditional principles, with a special view to envisioning how such differences affect the possibilities for the restitution of such principles in each domain. Special attention is given to various aberrant 'spiritualities' in the West, and how they might be overcome by reference to teachinigs still extant in the East, and a rejuvenation of what remains in the West of organizations retaining at least a core of the metaphysical teachings that were in full bloom in the medieval West.

From the publisher: At the dawn of the Renaissance, Christian Europe was wearing Persian clothes, singing Arab songs, reading Spanish Muslim philosophy and eating off Mamluk Turkish brassware. This is the story of how Muslims taught Europe to live well and think clearly. It is the story of How Islam Created the Modern World.

A collection of editorials by Mufti Taqi Usmani published in monthly Al-Balagh International. Challenges those who want to promote blind following of the West in the Muslim world.

This book reconstructs the development of the catch-term "political Islam" - from the original Qur'anic categorization of a "religion" to the emergence of a tendency to predicate Islam in terms of its so-called societal, and subsequently political, dimension - and shows how, by the end of the 1970s, both discourse and the "hermeneutic field" itself have become politicized, due to the emerging image of an "Islam in Movement"

This is the translation of "Islam Between East and West" by the late Alija Ali Izatbegovic of Bosnia.

Maryam Jameelah (1934-2012) was born as Margret Marcus to a Jewish family in New York. She converted to Islam in her mid-twenties, and eventually moved to Pakistan, where she died in 2012.

(Islamic Lectures by Professor Muhammad Hamidur Rahman)

Compiled by Muhammad Adam Ali