This book portrays the relationship of Islam as a system of faith and as a tradition to human health and health care. Rahman (1919-1988) was a Pakistani philosopher and educator and a prominent liber
"As Professor Fazlur Rahman shows in the latest of a series of important contributions to Islamic intellectual history, the characteristic problems of the Muslim modernists--the adaptation to the nee
Fazlur Rahman's Islam is aptly titled, in that this slim volume constitutes an incisive and surprisingly comprehensive history and analysis of Islam—its history, its conflicts, its legacy—and its pros
This longstanding and highly regarded volume is the first to explore the doctrine of prophetic revelation, a critical and definitive area of Islamic religious and political thought. In it, the este
Major Themes of the Qur’an is Fazlur Rahman’s introduction to one of the richest texts in the history of religious thought. In this classic work, Rahman unravels the Qur’an’s complexities on themes su
Fazlur Rahman was one of the great 20th-century Muslim modernists, whose prolific writing and sheer number of students who make up a who's who of Islamic studies throughout North America reveal the im
Rahman confronts today's perception of Islamic fundamentalism. Drawing from medieval sources and such great thinkers as al-Ghazali and Ibn Taymiyya, he reasserts Islam as a dynamic faith whose fundame
