Jamal Khwaja: 7 books
The Call of Modernity and Islam
A Muslim's Journey Into the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
The Call Of Modernity And Islam is a timely and welcome anthology of ten scholarly essays that focus creatively on the urgent need to re-energize Islamic culture and institutions. The essays span an enormous disciplinary range. Professor Khwaja moves back and forth with consummate ease between religion,...
by Jamal Khwaja
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
In a world where powerful lobbies are vilifying the Qur'an as the underlying cause of conflicts-conflicts that are actually rooted in greed and the self-serving secular politics of oil, occupation and social injustice-how can non-Muslims discover the authentic teachings of the Qur'an? How can they...
Five Approaches To Philosophy
A Discerning Philosopher Philosophizes About The Philosophy Of Philosophy With Wisdom and Clarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This monograph attempts to describe different approaches to philosophy, their situational and conceptual fields, their inter-relations and limitations. The possibility of combining them into a multi-dimensional approach is also discussed. The key notion underlying this essay is that the actual doing...
Essays On Cultural Pluralism
A Philosophical Approach To Interfaith Spirituality In The Age Of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Ours are times when religion is systematically being used: unconsciously by some and deliberately by others, in the service of politics and personal gain, rather then spirituality. However, perceptive and honest minds among all religious communities view different religions as diverse “languages...
The Vision Of An Unknown Indian
My Journey To Interfaith Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In this book I have recounted important facets of the story of my inner intellectual and spiritual growth. It is the story of how, a relatively, dogmatic model of Islam developed into the paradigm that I now accept. In one sentence my journey has taken me from an honest acceptance that Muslims alone...
Quest for Islam
A Philosopher's Approach To Religion In The Age Of Science And Cultural Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Quest for Islam is a systematic exposition of Islam in the light of contemporary knowledge by a practicing Muslim. A seminal work, it successfully resolves intellectual difficulties created in traditional interpretations by new knowledge. Among other things it organically integrates core Islamic values...
Authenticity And Islamic Liberalism
A Mature Vision Of Islamic Liberalism Grounded In The Quran
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
"Authenticity and Islamic Liberalism" is a collection of four original and highly stimulating papers on the liberal existentialist approach to religion with special reference to Islam in India. Each paper deals with an independent theme; yet, a consistent analytical existentialist approach...