Islam and the Plight of Modern Man

This is a revised and updated edition of this seminal work on the responses of Islam to the modern world. Starting with the present-day condition of man in the modern world and the dilemma of the present-day Muslim, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses the interchange that has continued between Islam and the West over the centuries. The author then proceeds to examine the profound struggle in the Muslim world between the Islamic tradition and Western ideologies and culture concentrating on the present situations in the Arab world, in Iran, in India and in Pakistan. In addition to a new preface, this revised edition of Islam and the Plight of Modern Man includes two new chapters: Islam at the Dawn of the Third Christian Millennium, and Reflections on Islam and the West: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

'This book can be recommended for its panoramic and balanced view of dar al-islam.'
'This book can be mined for answers to questions such as how tobuild an education which is both modern and Islamic, and how to reviveIslamic intellectual traditions.'

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born in Teheran to a family oftraditional scholars and physicians. After receiving his early educationin Iran, he went to America where he studied physics and the history ofscience and philosophy at M.I.T. and Harvard, where he received hisdoctorate. Nasr was Professor at Teheran University and founder andfirst President of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy. He is currentlyProfessor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University and authorof numerous books including: Ideals and Realities of Islam, A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World and Science & Civilization in Islam, all published by the Islamic Texts Society.

This is a revised and updated edition of this seminal work on the responses of Islam to the modern world. Starting with the present-day condition of man in the modern world and the dilemma of the present day Muslim, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses the interchange that has continued between Islam and the West over the centuries. The author then proceeds to examine the profound struggle in the Muslim world between the Islamic tradition and Western ideologies and culture concentrating on the present situations in the Arab world, in Iran, in India and in Pakistan. In addition to a new preface, this revised edition of 'Islam and the Plight of Modern Man' includes two new chapters: Islam at the Dawn of the Third Christian Millennium, and Reflections on Islam and the West: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

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