CONTENTS
Foreword to the New Edition
Table of Transliteration
Preface
Part I
The Present-day Condition of Man
Chapter 1 Contemporary Western Man
between the Rim and the Axis
Chapter 2 The Dilemma of the
Present-day Muslim
Part II
The Comparative Method and the Study of the Islamic
Intellectual Heritage in the West
Chapter 3 Metaphysics and Philosophy East
and West: Necessary Conditions for
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Meaningful Comparative Study 41
Chapter 4 The Significance of the Comparative
Method for the Study of the Islamic
Intellectual and Spiritual Heritage 57
Part III
The Islamic Tradition and the
Current Problems of Modern Man
Chapter 5 The Spiritual Needs of Western
Man and the Message of Sufism
Chapter 6 The Harmony of Contemplation
and Action in Islam
Part IV
The Contemporary Muslim between
Islam and the Modern World
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Chapter 7 Islam in the Islamic World Today 123
Chapter 8 Islam in the Arab World in
the 14th Islamic Century 131
v1n Islam and the Plight of Modem Man
Chapter 9 Islam in Persia, to the
Threshold of the New Islamic Century 151
Chapter 10 Decadence, Deviation and Renaissance:
Their Meaning in the Context of
Contemporary Islam 185
Chapter 11 The Western World and its
Challenges to Islam 199
Part V
Postscript
Chapter 12 Islam at the Dawn of the
Third Christian Millennium 235
Chapter 13 Reflections upon Islam and the WestYesterday,
Today and Tomorrow 267
Index 285