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Ideals and Realities of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Ideals and Realities of Islam Seyyed Hossein Nasr ebook
Publisher: ABC International Group, Inc.
ISBN: 193063711X, 9781930637115
Format: pdf
Page: 249

One non-Muslim writer once remarked how when talking to Muslims about Islam compared to the West, Muslims take the ideal of Islam and compare it to the reality of the West. Product DescriptionThis is the first of very few English books to treat Islam from its own point of view, from within the tradition. This is an important distinction. It is written for the Western reader interested in Islam, and also for the Western-educated Muslim. It rejects the notion of a public/private dichotomy (by the way, absent in early Islamic jurisprudence, orfiqh) conceptualizing a holistic umma in which Quranic ideals are operative in all space. The Zionists, in their ongoing propaganda war on Islam, love to conjure up alleged Judeo-Christian ideals that compare favorably with alleged Muslim realities. Be careful of mixing up the ideal with the reality. I think there is definitely a wide gap between the Islamic ideal and the Muslim reality, but I don't think this is the only reason for this problem. A revised and updated edition of the best-selling introduction to Islam written by one of the foremost scholars in the field. He also wrote Three Muslim Sages, Ideals and Realities in Islam and Science and Civilization in Islam, which he had written while still a student in Harvard. But, even from a distance, the essay came across as so well thought out and written that it has inspired me to read a book that a judge gave me a few years ago -- Ideals and Realities of Islam by Nasr.