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This paper offers a number of valuable insights gained from a long engagement with Islamic as well as global issues, with traditional as well as contemporary concerns. It not only surveys the field along with the powers and challenges at work, but also charts a way out of the present impasse. More immediately, it offers an updated review of the progress of the Islamization of Knowledge project and a timely clarification of the very concept itself. Clearly, that concept, though responsible for generating worldwide debate and action, has been so often misinterpreted and/or inflated.The gradational nature of the Islamizing project is all too obvious, and was never far from the minds of the authors of the 1892 declaration. It would certainly have been juvenile to think otherwise. And yet there is a need now to stress, as the present paper does, the ambitious (but also imperative) nature of the enterprise. For, despite the highly commendable effort invested in further elaboration and, in some brave instances, attempted implementation of the concept, the process of the Islamizaiton of Knowledge remains at an initial, some might even say, prenatal stage. Much work needs to be done, many t

Author

Taha Jabir Al-Alwani; Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo

Publisher

International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565640580

Subjects

Sociology, Islam, Education

Updated

2026-03-24