Full Description
This is a revised and updated edition of this seminal work on the responses of Islam to the modern world. Starting with the present-day condition of man in the modern world and the dilemma of the present day Muslim, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses the interchange that has continued between Islam and the West over the centuries. The author then proceeds to examine the profound struggle in the Muslim world between the Islamic tradition and Western ideologies and culture concentrating on the present situations in the Arab world, in Iran, in India and in Pakistan. In addition to a new preface, this revised edition of 'Islam and the Plight of Modern Man' includes two new chapters: Islam at the Dawn of the Third Christian Millennium, and Reflections on Islam and the West: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
Contents
Part Ibetween the Rim and the Axis; 2. The Dilemma of the Present-day Muslim; Part II: The Comparative Method and the Study of the Islamic Intellectual Heritage in the West; 3. Metaphysics and Philosophy East and West: Necessary Conditions for Meaningful Comparative Study; 4. The Significance of the Comparative Method for the Study of the Islamic Intellectual and Spiritual Heritage; Part III: The Islamic Tradition and the Current Problems of Modern Man; 5. The Spiritual Needs of Western Man and the Message of Sufism; 6. The Harmony of Contemplation and Action in Islam; Part IV: The Contemporary Muslim between Islam and the Modern World; 7. Islam in the Islamic World Today; 8. Islam in the Arab World in the 14th Islamic Century; 9. Islam in Persia, to the Threshold of the New Islamic Century; 10. Decadence, Deviation and Renaissance: Their Meaning in the Context of Contemporary Islam; 11. The Western World and its Challenges to Islam; Part V: Postscript; 17. Islam at the Dawn of the Third Christian Millennium; 18. Reflections upon Islam and the West-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Index.
