PREFACE
FROM THE PREFACE . . . On reaching the age of seventy, I was encouraged to commit to paper ideas and reflections I had shared with friends and colleagues over…
INTRODUCTION
FROM THE INTRODUCTION Islam & the West have been neighbours for 1400 years. The West grew up under the shadow of Islam, and then after the Renaissance, in a dramatic…
SOVEREIGNTY
FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER: SOVEREIGNTY What has been defined above as the ‘ontological triad’ depends on the maintenance within a civilisation of balance in the essential relationship between three levels…
CIVILISATION
FROM THE SECOND CHAPTER: CIVILISATION For a thousand years, before the rise of the European empires, the two civilisations that dominated the Afro-Eurasian world were those of China and Islam.…
KNOWLEDGE
FROM THE THIRD CHAPTER: KNOWLEDGE Within a hundred years of the establishment of the community in Medina, the Muslims had control of an empire that stretched from Spain to India…
GLOSSARY
Mīzān – An Arabic term which can be translated as balance, justice, measure, harmony or weighing scales. It is a term which contains a spiritual dimension that is not conveyed…