Crisis in the Muslim Mind

FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
PREFACE TO THE ARABIC EDITION . . . . . . . . Xiii
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION xvii
CHAPfERONE
Contemporary Islamic Asdlah:
The Only Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Historical Roots of the Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The Crux of the Crisis and
the Future of the Ummah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
CHAPTER1WO
The Traditional Methodology .
of Islamic Thought: Assessment and Critique . . . 35
Shari\'ah and Non-Shari\'ah Sciences . ........ 38
Neglect of the Social Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
The Conflict Between Reason and Revelation ... 46
Our Intellectual Heritage:
Past1 Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 
CHAPTER THREE
Principles in the Methodology
of Islamic Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
The Basic Concepts:
The Purposeful Nature of Creation . . . . . . . . . 79
Objectivity of Truth .................... 81
Freedom ............................ 83
Tawakkul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Causality\" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Islamic Methodology: Means and Application . . . 98
CHAPI\'ER FOUR
Requirements for Establishing
the Islamic Civilizational Sciences . . . . . . . . . . 105
Classifying Islamic Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Dimensions of Existence ........ . ..... . .. 113
The Impartiality of Truth .............. . .. 119 
CHAPTER FIVE
The Premises of the Social Sciences . . . . . . . . . 123
Islamization and the Science of Education . . . . 125
Islamizatlon and Political Science .......... 132
Islam, Science, and Technology .. .......... 141
CHAPTER SIX
Islam and the Future ..... .. ............. 145
Islamizatlon and Academic Institutions ...... 149
The Future Course of Humanity\" .......... .. 153
Islamization is the Issue of the Ummah ... .. . 158