Syed Alam Khundmiri (1922-83) was an important intellectual figure of his times, a true humanist with rare philosophical insights ranging over a wide field. The volume brings together Khundmiri’s seminal essays which set out his dominant concerns: Marxism, with its indifference to questions of minorities in nationalism; existentialism, which he saw as being closed off to the problems of community; and Islam, which he examined in relation to history and notions of time and change. Overall, this absorbing collection of essays encapsulates Khundmiri’s dual project of situating Islam in the modern context and scrutinizing the modern in the light of Islam. Particularly relevant in the present context of the increasing sacralization of politics, it will be read with great interest by students and scholars of philosophy, history, sociology, Islamic studies, Marxism, comparative religion, cultural studies, and political and social theory, as well as by the aware and concerned lay reader. INDICE: Foreword - Kadir ZamanIntroduction - M T Ansari In the Interstices of an Indian Islamic IdentityPerspectives on Islam and Philosophy - Asghar Ali EngineerPART ONEA Critical Examination of Islamic Traditionalism with Reference to the Demands of ModernizationGod - The Contemporary Debate The Islamic PerspectiveSome Problems of Inter-Religious UnderstandingReligion and Its Application to Modern Life The Islamic ProblemPART TWOMan's Nature and Destiny The Philosophic View in IslamAl-Ghazali's Repudiation of Causality The Destruction of Philosophical Inquiry in IslamThe Meaning of Reason in the Systems of Al-Farabi and Ibn SinaEastern Aristotelians and TimeThe Tension between Morality and Law in IslamPART THREEIqbal on Human KnowledgeIqbal and Indian SufismIqbal on Time and SelfIqbal and the Existentialist Thinkers Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and HeideggerThe Political Philosophy of IqbalPART FOURSecularism Western and IndianSome Distinctive Features of Indian SufismThe Changing Concept of Man in Sufi LiteratureIslam and FascismIslam and DemocracyObscurantism and the Indian SituationContemporary Religious Situation: An Existential AnalysisPublished Works of Alam KhundmiriIndex
- ISBN: 978-0-7619-9561-6
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 308
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