Ahmed Afzaal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6692766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmed Afzaal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmed |
| FAMILY NAME | Afzaal |
| SIGNATURE | AFZAAL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia College901 8th St S, Moorhead MN 56562USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disenchantment and the Environmental Crisis
“The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis” by Lynn White Jr. poses specific challenges to Islamic metaphysics and theology that have yet to be adequately addressed by Muslim scholars. I argue that the transition from a panentheistic view of God to an increasingly supernaturalist one is indicative of a larger shift in worldview that White had failed to emphasize. Reading White’s essay in light of Weber and Iqbal, I argue that a worldview domi…
Losing My Religion
Jeffrey Lang is a well-known Muslim convert and professor of mathematicsat the University of Kansas. Losing My Religion is his third book. In many ways, it surpasses the first two in the relevance and urgency of itssubject matter.While the book shares its title with a 1991 song by the popular rockband REM, its central theme is almost as old as religion itself: bridging thechasm that seems to separate religious beliefs and practices on the one han…
The Flame of Sinai
The current surge of attention and sensitivity to Islam in western academiaand popular culture often boils down to the question of Islam’s compatibility– or lack thereof – with modernity. The issue is by no means a simpleone, and is further complicated by the fact that both “Islam” and “modernity”are made to carry a heavy load of multiple definitions that are alsosusceptible to ideological uses and abuses. Such influential American commentatorsas…
Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam
The two editors of this volume have successfully pooled their expertise insociology, politics, and modern Islam to bring together a cogent and wellorganizedreader of key texts depicting the self-statements of what maybe tentatively called Islamic “modernism” and “fundamentalism.” Theselection of 34 articles and treatises (18 on modernism, 16 on fundamentalism)is preceded by a scholarly introduction that also contains shortbiographies of the write…
The Origin of Islam as a Social Movement
Disenchantment and the Environmental Crisis
“The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis” by Lynn White Jr. poses specific challenges to Islamic metaphysics and theology that have yet to be adequately addressed by Muslim scholars. I argue that the transition from a panentheistic view of God to an increasingly supernaturalist one is indicative of a larger shift in worldview that White had failed to emphasize. Reading White’s essay in light of Weber and Iqbal, I argue that a worldview domi…
The Origin of Islam as a Social Movement
The Flame of Sinai
The current surge of attention and sensitivity to Islam in western academiaand popular culture often boils down to the question of Islam’s compatibility– or lack thereof – with modernity. The issue is by no means a simpleone, and is further complicated by the fact that both “Islam” and “modernity”are made to carry a heavy load of multiple definitions that are alsosusceptible to ideological uses and abuses. Such influential American commentatorsas…
Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam
The two editors of this volume have successfully pooled their expertise insociology, politics, and modern Islam to bring together a cogent and wellorganizedreader of key texts depicting the self-statements of what maybe tentatively called Islamic “modernism” and “fundamentalism.” Theselection of 34 articles and treatises (18 on modernism, 16 on fundamentalism)is preceded by a scholarly introduction that also contains shortbiographies of the write…
Losing My Religion
Jeffrey Lang is a well-known Muslim convert and professor of mathematicsat the University of Kansas. Losing My Religion is his third book. In many ways, it surpasses the first two in the relevance and urgency of itssubject matter.While the book shares its title with a 1991 song by the popular rockband REM, its central theme is almost as old as religion itself: bridging thechasm that seems to separate religious beliefs and practices on the one han…
Disenchantment and the Environmental Crisis
“The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis” by Lynn White Jr. poses specific challenges to Islamic metaphysics and theology that have yet to be adequately addressed by Muslim scholars. I argue that the transition from a panentheistic view of God to an increasingly supernaturalist one is indicative of a larger shift in worldview that White had failed to emphasize. Reading White’s essay in light of Weber and Iqbal, I argue that a worldview domi…
Islam (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religious Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)