Milad Milani is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia and a School-based Member of the Institute for Culture and Society. Zolt Salontai is Adjunct Fellow in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia

A highly educative, stimulating, comprehensive and balanced study, very important for a better understanding of Islam both historically and as a contemporary force addressing the problems of modernity

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Contextualization, Problematization, and Questions Part I: Intellectual, Historical, and Cultural Context 1. Contextualizing Heidegger’s Philosophy for an Examination of Islam’s Intellectual Tradition 2. The Question of Renaissance and Reformation for Islam 3. Sober Truth and Mad for Change 4. Civilization East and West: The Exchange and Flow of Ideas Part II: Classical Islamic Thought 5. al-Farabi’s Renaissance: Faith, Politics and the Ontological Possibility 6. Ibn Sina the Renaissance Man: The Role of Thinking and the Potentiality of Ontology 7. al-Ghazali’s Conflict: Theologizing Metaphysics and the Concealment of Truth 8. Ibn Rushd’s Highest Rationalism: Metaphysical Theology and the Supremacy of Law 9. Nasir al-Din Tusi: The Masks of Wisdom and the Religiopolitical Master 10. Ibn Taymiyya: The Question of an Islamic Reformation 11. Ibn Khaldun: Islamic Truth and History Part III: Islamic Modernity 12. Asadabadi (“al-Afghani”): The Religiopolitical Awakening of Islam 13. Iqbal: The Enlightenment of Islam and Islamic Modernity 14. Qutb’s Hermeneutics of a Fallen State: Restoration of Religion and the 15. Shari‘ati: The Hermeneutics of Revolution and the “Freethinker” 16. Taha: The Hermeneutics of a Future Islam Conclusion: Revival, Reform, and the State of Muslim Intellectualism Bibliography Index

Milad Milani is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia and a School-based Member of the Institute for Culture and Society. Zolt Salontai is Adjunct Fellow in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia

A highly educative, stimulating, comprehensive and balanced study, very important for a better understanding of Islam both historically and as a contemporary force addressing the problems of modernity

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Contextualization, Problematization, and Questions Part I: Intellectual, Historical, and Cultural Context 1. Contextualizing Heidegger’s Philosophy for an Examination of Islam’s Intellectual Tradition 2. The Question of Renaissance and Reformation for Islam 3. Sober Truth and Mad for Change 4. Civilization East and West: The Exchange and Flow of Ideas Part II: Classical Islamic Thought 5. al-Farabi’s Renaissance: Faith, Politics and the Ontological Possibility 6. Ibn Sina the Renaissance Man: The Role of Thinking and the Potentiality of Ontology 7. al-Ghazali’s Conflict: Theologizing Metaphysics and the Concealment of Truth 8. Ibn Rushd’s Highest Rationalism: Metaphysical Theology and the Supremacy of Law 9. Nasir al-Din Tusi: The Masks of Wisdom and the Religiopolitical Master 10. Ibn Taymiyya: The Question of an Islamic Reformation 11. Ibn Khaldun: Islamic Truth and History Part III: Islamic Modernity 12. Asadabadi (“al-Afghani”): The Religiopolitical Awakening of Islam 13. Iqbal: The Enlightenment of Islam and Islamic Modernity 14. Qutb’s Hermeneutics of a Fallen State: Restoration of Religion and the 15. Shari‘ati: The Hermeneutics of Revolution and the “Freethinker” 16. Taha: The Hermeneutics of a Future Islam Conclusion: Revival, Reform, and the State of Muslim Intellectualism Bibliography Index