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The Qur'an and the Secular Mind; A Philosophy of Islam (2008) - Shabbir Akhtar

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Contents<br />

A note on transliteration <strong>and</strong> abbreviations<br />

ix<br />

Introduction 1<br />

PART I<br />

Quranic <strong>Islam</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> secular mind 13<br />

1 Locating <strong>Islam</strong> in <strong>the</strong> modern world 15<br />

2 Human reason <strong>and</strong> divine revelation 57<br />

3 <strong>The</strong> moral challenge <strong>of</strong> secular humanism 90<br />

PART II<br />

An Arabic Quran: Assessing its authority 117<br />

4 <strong>The</strong> book sent down 119<br />

5 <strong>The</strong> book as ‘<strong>the</strong> frustrater’ 135<br />

6 <strong>The</strong> scope <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> book 157<br />

7 <strong>The</strong> authority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> book 186<br />

PART III<br />

A Quranic Lebenswelt in a secular age 215<br />

8 A sign is enough – for <strong>the</strong> wise 217<br />

9 Faith <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> varieties <strong>of</strong> rejection 238

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