Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam

This book defines, perhaps for the first time in the history of the intellectual and religious tradition of Islam, the meaning of worldview from the perspective of Islam. The definition is articulated in the gathering together of the fundamental elements in the vision of reality and truth that projects the worldview of Islam into a meaningful whole. This articulation and contradiction of the challenges to that vision are encountered throughout the ages to the present time.

Introduction

I. Islām: The Concept of Religion and the Foundation of Ethics and Morality

II. The Meaning and Experience of Happiness in Islām

III. Islām and the Philosophy of Science

IV. The Nature of Man and the Psychology of the Human Soul

V. The Intuition of Existence

VI. On Quiddity and Essence

VII. The Degrees of Existence

Author: Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Binding: Hardcover