The Intellectual Crisis of the Ummah
Revisiting the Past Patterns of Thought
Abstract
These notes are a slightly revised version of a keynote address delivered by the author at a two-day international conference on the “Intellectual Crises of the Muslim Ummah: Rethinking Traditional Solutions,” held at the Aligarh Muslim University, India, on April 6-7, 2015.
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