An Introduction to Islamic Psychology
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Even after more than a century, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani continues to maintain his direct relevance to the contemporary discourse on Islam versus modern political and social theories and institutions. His duel confrontation against the Western political and economic interventions in the Muslim lands and against the Muslim theological authorities has defined various new perspectives on the inter-relationship between the non changing Islamic belief-system and the changing times. The political West (and not its thinking elite) continues, as in the days of Afghani, to treat Islam and the Muslim countries,particularly of West Asia, as two main challenges to its ambitions of controlling the world politically, economically and culturally. The Muslim mind, on the other hand, is still not ready to take notice of challenges the new knowledge has posed for the medieval Islamic theology and, for this, to revisit the Quran. Afghani had offered his analysis of both these situations and suggested the remedies. He is one of the most prominent Muslim intellectuals of the East who may help in a proper understanding of the contemporary complexities of the dynamics of world peace and the knowledge driven concept of religiosity. A new chapter has been added on Afghani’s stay in India (not studied adequately, so far) during which he emerges as a social thinker suggesting a new idea of Islam—-not a theological-political system but as a functioning social system responsive to change.
Additional information
Weight | 410 g |
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Publisher | Institute of objective studies |
Author Name | ANWAR MOAZZAM |