Divine Revelation and Human Creative Imagination in the Wiritings of Three Indian Muslim Thinkers

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