The Qur'anic Worldview

This is a translation into English of al-Ru’yah al-Kawniyyah al-Hadariyyah in which the author addressed a central question bothering modern Muslims: how to reverse the obvious decline into which their Ummah has fallen. The answer given in this book is simple: re-apply the Qur’anic worldview, i.e., faith, its ethical, monotheistic, purposeful perspective on the world at large, and recover the dynamism of its glorious past by reclaiming an Islamic identity. Remarkable in this context is the author’s definition of ahadith qudsiyyah:“An utterance of God on the lips of the Prophet, not found in the Qur’an’ (p. 171). The book is in perfect English. But its enjoyment is marred by the author’s self-promotion, most prominent in his Introduction: “My purpose in recounting... is to clarify the various dimensions of my personal experience and the intensity with which I grappled’. (p. xx) ‘Such questions have to do with my understanding of myself, the meaning of my existence...’. (p. xxii) Critical as well is the author’s abuse of footnotes, filling 14 pages, i.e. 12% of the book; one of them (note 3 to Chapter I) covers three pages - in small print.