Author: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
Title: Traditional Islam in the Modern World
Description: London, KPI International, 1990. orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, x,335 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: What is Traditional Islam? Facets of the Islamic Tradition; The Spiritual Significance of Jihad; Islamic Work Ethics; The Male and the Female in the Islamic Perspective; Traditional Shi'ism in Safavid Persia; Traditional Islam and Modernism; Islam in the Present-Day Islamic World - An Overview; Reflections on Islam and Modern Thought; Value and Development in the Contemporary Islamic World; Tradition and Modernism - Tensions in Various Cultural Domains; Islamic Education, Philosophy and Science - A Survey in the Light of Present-Day Challenges; The Islamic Philosophers' Views on Education; The Traditional Texts used in the Persian Madrasahs; Philosophy in the Present-Day Islamic World; Teaching Philosophy in the Light of the Islamic Educational Ethos; The Architectural Transformation of the Urban Environment in the Islamic World;The Principles of Islamic Architecture and Contemporary Urban Problems; Western Interpreters of the Islamic Tradition; In Commemoration of Louis Massignon: Catholic Scholar, Islamicist and Mystic; Henry Corbin: The Life and Works of the Occidental Exile in Quest of the Orient of Light; With Titus Burckhardt at the Tomb of Muhyi al-Din ibn 'Arabi; Postscript; The Islamic World - Present Tendencies, Future Trends.

Keywords: Islamic Theology, Islam, Religion, Tradition, Traditional, Modernism, Modernism, ,