The Quran and the secular mind : a philosophy of Islam /
Shabbir Akhtar.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- viii, 400 p ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-392) 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.
Argues that Islam is uniquely able to confront the challenges posed by secularism, with the modern Judeo-Christian tradition effectively a form of liberal humanism in disguise, and that the Quran can and should be studied from a philosophical, rather than only theological, perspective.