Akhtar, Shabbir

The Quran and the secular mind : a philosophy of Islam / Shabbir Akhtar. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2007. - [ix], 400 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Quranic Islam and the secular mind -- Locating Islam in the modern world -- Human reason and divine revelation -- The moral challenge of secular humanism -- Pt. II. An Arabic Quran: assessing its authority -- The book sent down -- The book as the frustrater -- The scope of the book -- The authority of the book -- Pt. III. A Quranic Lebenswelt in a secular age -- A sign is enough - for the wise -- Faith and the varieties of rejection -- Human nature and the Quran -- greater is God! -- Pt. IV. Conclusions -- Preface to a philosophy of Islam.

9780415437837 (pbk.) 0415437830 (pbk.) 9780415437820 (hardback) 0415437822 (hardback) 9780203935316 (ebook) 0203935314 (ebook)

2007-017242


Al-Qur'an--Evidences, authority, etc.


Islam and secularism.
Philosophy, Islamic.