Secularism, Islam and modernity: selected essays of Alam Khundmiri/
edited by M.T. Ansari
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2001.
- 308 p.
A Critical Examination of Islamic Traditionalism with Reference to the Demands of Modernization -- God -- The Contemporary Debate: the Islamic Perspective -- Some Problems of Inter-Religious Understanding -- Religion and Its Application to Modern Life: the Islamic Problem -- Man's Nature and Destiny: the Philosophic View in Islam -- Al-Ghazali's Repudiation of Causality: the Destruction of Philosophical Inquiry in Islam -- The Meaning of Reason in the Systems of Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina -- Eastern Aristotelians and Time -- The Tension between Morality and Law in Islam -- Iqbal on Human Knowledge -- Iqbal and Indian Sufism -- Iqbal on Time and Self -- Iqbal and the Existentialist Thinkers: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger -- The Political Philosophy of Iqbal -- Secularism: Western and Indian -- Some Distinctive Features of Indian Sufism -- The Changing Concept of Man in Sufi Literature -- Islam and Fascism -- Islam and Democracy -- Obscurantism and the Indian Situation (with special reference to the Indian Muslim community) -- Contemporary Religious Situation: An Existential Analysis