Crisis in the Muslim Mind

• Main Author: Abusulayman, Abdulhamid (auth)
• Other Authors: Talal DeLorenzo, Yusuf (auth, Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: International Institute of Islamic Thought 1993
• Subjects: Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Islam; The Koran; Sociology; Middle East Studies; Religion
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Across the Muslim world today, if anything is selfevident across the Muslim world today it is that the Ummah is badly in need of reform. On this point it can be stated with confidence that Muslims are agreed. Poverty and injustice characterize the face of Muslim lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Pollution and corruption are the order of the day in the societies where the gulf between them and the developed countries of the world has never been wider. Politics in the Muslim world are all too often the politics of deprivation, and culture the culture of despair. "Crisis in the Muslim Mind" examines the intellectual and historical roots of the malaise that has encompassed the Ummah and threatens to efface its identity. First published in Arabic in 1991, this important work (in an abridged English translation) is designed to familiarize educated and concerned Muslims with the nature of the crisis confronting them, and to suggest the steps necessary to overcome it.