Islam and the challenge of modernity : historical and contemporary contexts :

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Al-Attas, Sharifah Shifa (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Inaugural Symposium on Islam and the Challenge of Modernity : Historical and Contemporary (1994 : Kuala Lumpur), International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Kuala Lumpur : International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization , c1996
Subjects:	Architecture, Modern > Religious aspects > Islam > Congresses History > Philosophy > Congresses Islam and science > 20th century > Congresses Islamic renewal > Congresses Islam > 20th century > Congresses Medical education > Religious aspects > Islam > Congresses Thought and thinking > Religious aspects > Islam > Congresses Islamic countries > Civilization > Congresses

Table of Contents:

1. Keynote address: the worldview of Islam: an outline
2. An Islamic evaluation of the modern concept of rationality
3. Historicism versus positivism
4. The aids dilemma: a progeny of modernity
5. Moderns and anti-moderns: a critical look into the architectural development of the recent past
6. Methodology and curricula in medical education and institution in Islam
7. Some thoughts on modernity and modern muslim thinking about Islam
8. Factors behind the decline of Islamic science after the sixteenth century
9. Modernist muslim reformism and the text of the past
10. The revival of Islamic philosophy in the safavid period with special reference to mir damad
11. Speaking with one voice: the politics of language in the modern muslim world
12. The influence of the Islamic revolution of Iran on the value system as reflected in children's books
13. Postmodernism and the world's religions
14. Modernity and religious worldviews-the challenge of classical Islamic religious thought for contemporary muslim intellectuals
15. Toward an Islamic concept of philosophy: a response to the modernists

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