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This book seeks to distinguish clearly between traditional Islam and both modernism and the "fundamentalist" or resurgent forms of Islam which are often confused with traditional Islam. The author, who speaks from the traditional point of view, delineates clearly how traditional Islam, as rooted in the Quran and the prophetic Sunnah, and as lived over the centuries by Muslims, differs from both the modernist and the "fundamentalist" schools in so many domains ranging from art and science to politics. He then discusses the encounter of traditional Islam with the challenges which face it in the modern world in general, as well as in the specific realms of education, science, philosophy and architecture and urbanism which are of central concern to the contemporary Muslim world.
The book also devotes a section to some of the leading Western interpreters of Islam who in one way or another have appreciated and made known some aspects of traditional Islam to the West and who represent another dimension of the encounter between traditional Islam and the modern world. Finally, the existing tendencies of thought in the Islamic world are described. The author considers how these tendencies may develop in the future and looks at the trends which are most likely to dominate the Islamic world in the years to come.
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Turkish: Modern Dünyada Geleneksel İslam. Trans. Savaş Şafak Barkçin- Hüsamettin Arslan. Istanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 1989.
Urdu: "جدید دنیا ميں روایتی اسلام". ترجمہ، سجاد باقر رضوی. لاہور: ادارۂ ثقافت اسلامیہ، 1996.
French: L'Islam traditional face au monde moderne. Trans. Gisèle Kondracki. Paris: L'Age d'Homme, 1993.
Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian: Traditionalni Islam in Modernom Svijetu. Trans. Zulejha Ridanović. Sarajevo: El Kalem, Rijaset islamske zajednice u BiH, 1994.
Italian: L’Islam tradizionale nel mondo moderno. Trans. Lorenzo Casadei and Angela Tripaldi. Rome: Casadei Libri Editore, 2006.
Persian: "اسلام سنتي در دنياي متجدد،" ترجمۀ محمد صالحي، تهران، دفتر پژوهش و نشر سهروردي، 13۸6.
English: Islam in the Modern World–Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition (revised and augmented edition of Traditional Islam in the Modern World). San Francisco: Harper One, 2010.
Albanian: Islami Dhe Derti i hjeriut Modern. Translated by Edin Q. Lohja. Tirana: Logos. A. 2017.
Kurdish: "لاوی موسوڵمان و دونیای مۆدێرن". وەرگێڕان، سەعید بەشير. ھەولێر: رێنما، شوێنی چاپ، 2017.
