Islam, Religion, Practice, Culture and World Order By Imtiyaz Yusuf, ed. (Herndon, VA: The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2012. 96 pages.)

Abstract

Isma‘il al-Faruqi (1921-86), a reformer, a visionary, and a great modern
scholar, wrote on several aspects of Islam and Muslim interactions with major
spiritual traditions of the world. This short book is a collection of his brief reflections
on Islam’s basic ideals. Thus it is not a research work, but rather an
explication on how Islam should be comprehended on its own merit. Expressed
in simple language to make its contents accessible to the general public
and containing no references, it consists of seven parts each comprised of
three or four chapters. The arrangement of topics was not chronological, even
though one would have expected its editor, Imtiyaz Yusuf – one of al-Faruqi’s
students – to pay attention to such order by rearranging the chapters. For example, one would logically expect the discussion of the isrOE’ and mi‘rOEj to
come before the discussion of the hijrah ...