A Faith for All Seasons: Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World

by Shabbir Akhtar

Overview

This is an unusual book with an unusual purpose. Shabbir Akhtar is an intelligent and erudite Muslim whose writings have attracted the attention of Graham Greene and other English authors. In A Faith for All Seasons he challenges his fellow Muslims to recognize that they live in a secular world of religious pluralism; that they must demonstrate to their critics that Islam is a progressive and responsive faith. In the course of arguing for a more congenial encounter with the modern world, Mr. Akhtar offers a remarkably clear and concise explanation of Islam's basic religious tenets. He discusses its rivalry with Christianity, Marxism, and secular liberalism as ideologies that also claim the allegiance of modern man. Censuring his co-religionists for the current intellectual paralysis in Islamic circles, he shows how believers can cultivate a reverent yet penetrating skepticism which teaches the ignorant, disturbs the orthodox, and agitates the indifferent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780929587639
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	02/01/1991
Series:	And Behavioral Science
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Shabbir Akhtar was born in Pakistan but has long been settled in Bradford, England. He is a philosophy graduate of Cambridge with a doctorate in comparative religion. His first book, Be Careful with Muhammad!, about the Salman Rushdie affair, was widely praised by English reviewers.

Editorial Reviews

Stimulating...a work of seminal importance.

Statesman - A. G. Noorani

An interesting philosophical exercise!

Enthralling...a potent vision of Islam beyond fanaticism and fundamentalism.

Stimulating...a work of seminal importance.

From the Publisher

Enthralling...a potent vision of Islam beyond fanaticism and fundamentalism.

CHOICE - B. B. Lawrence

An interesting philosophical exercise!

Voice Literary Supplement - Nisid Hajari

Enthralling...a potent vision of Islam beyond fanaticism and fundamentalism.

CHOICE - B.B. Lawrence

Stimulating...a work of seminal importance.

Statesman - A.G. Noorani

Stimulating...a work of seminal importance.
— A.G. Noorani

Statesman

Enthralling...a potent vision of Islam beyond fanaticism and fundamentalism.
— B.B. Lawrence

Choice

An interesting philosophical exercise!
— Nisid Hajari

Voice Literary Supplement

Enthralling...a potent vision of Islam beyond fanaticism and fundamentalism.
— B.B. Lawrence

CHOICE

Stimulating...a work of seminal importance.
— The Statesman

A. G. Noorani

Enthralling...a potent vision of Islam beyond fanaticism and fundamentalism.
— Choice

B. Lawrence

An interesting philosophical exercise!
— Voice Literary Supplement

Nisid Hajari

Enthralling...a potent vision of Islam beyond fanaticism and fundamentalism.

Choice Reviews - B. B. Lawrence