Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition
(By Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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As Muslims grow in numbers, and as Islam's role in world affairs becomes larger, we've begun to see the breakdown in a united fellowship among believers. Iran's clerics are split, militant fundamentalists clash with students from Islamic universities, moderate Muslim-Americans look nothing like wahhabis from Saudi Arabia. Islam seems to be at war with itself. In Islam in the Modern World one of the foremost Islamic scholars in the United States describes and defends traditional Islam against all the extremist factions that have attempted to coopt the faith and whose self-righteous rhetoric currently shapes our fears and prejudices.
Originally published in 1987 in the UK as Traditional Islam in the Modern World, Nasr has completely revised and updated this book for the U.S. with a new Introduction. A defense of "traditional" Islam, as opposed to Islamic fundamentalism, by one of the best-informed, most articulate Muslims of our time. Increasingly relevant in today's world, this book hits all the hot button issues currently surrounding Islam and offers a steady guide through an increasingly factious religion with increasing global relevance.”
