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The book is divided into six sections

For its moving account of the execution of Socrates

and not merely the wayward 
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rampant as it is with invasions and territorial occupations

“This work is one of the most successful introductions to Islam for a Western audience

Islam & Modernity - Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition saint augustine of hippo The book is divided into"As Professor Fazlur Rahman shows in the latest of a series of important contributions to Islamic intellectual history, the characteristic problems of the Muslim moderniststhe adaptation to the needs of the contemporary situation of a holy book which draws its specific examples from the conditions of the seventh century and earlierare by no means new. . . . In Professor Rahman's view the intellectual and therefore the social development of Islam has