Divine Revelation and Human Creative Imagination in the Wiritings of Three Indian Muslim Thinkers
- New Delhi ISPCK 2021
- 261p
The Threat of Science to Religious Authority .....5 Deism ......9 Muslims in the Indian Sub- Continent .....23 1. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan`s Interpretation of Revelation .......33 The Context ...33 Growing up in Delhi .........34 Education and Early Carrier .........37 The 1857 Rebellion .....37 Mysticism, Rationalism, and a Lifetime of Thought ........45 Wrestling with the Modern Western Worldview......48 The Intellect as the Source of Knowledge....52 Nature and the Intellect .....58 What the Intellect can know ......60 Revealed Knowledge ......68 Struggling with Traditional Accounts ...74 Redefining Angels .....76 The prophetic Faculty ....79 The Call to Prophecy .....91 Muhammad Seal of the Prophets ..94 The Place of God in the Revelation of the Qur`an .96 2. Mawlana Abu Al-Kalam Azad`s Interpretation of Revelation ....101 Birth in Makkah, Up-Bringing in Kolkata..101 Source of Human Knowledge ....106 The Guidance of Instint...112 The Guidance of Sence ...112 The Guidance of Revelation ....115 The Necessity of Revelation .....142 The Nature of the Prophet...162 Muhammad, Seal of the Prophets......169 3. Mawlana Abu Al-Ala Mawdudi`s Interpretation of Revelation ....172 Born in Aurangabad Growing up in Delhi .....172 Revelation According to Mawdudi....175 Mawdudi`s Understanding of Knowledge ....177 Why is Knowledge Necessary ......182 Mawdudi`s Understanding of Revelation .203 The Source and Manner of Revelation ..207 Prophecy and the Nature of the Prophet..209 Muhammad, Seal of the Prophets .....230