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Islamization of Modern Science and Its Philosophy: A Contemporary
Civilization Discourse
Muhammad Mumtaz Ali
ISBN : 978-967-418-436-0
Pages : 245
Price : RM 69.00 / € 30.00
Year : 2019 (Reprint)

Dr. Mumtaz Ali’s book is a wide-ranging survey of the history
and development of science. He shows the unprecedented and
seminal role of the Qur’an upon human thought and the enormous
methodological debt modern western science owes to truth-based
science’s contribution to thehuman intellectual heritage. Just as
importantly, he makes it clear that, despite claimsto neutrality and
objectivity, modern Western science, like all human activities reflects
the modern Western assumptions of its practitioners. Hence, he calls
that science ‘modern Western science’ which, he argues, is based on a false view of life and
the world. He advocates for the revival of that truth-based science. Since truth-based science
had fallen into a deathlike coma, there has been no one to challenge those assumptions until
recently. Dr. Ali strives to sketch the unique characteristics of truth-based science that can help
provide an alternative to modern Western science that dominates scientific endeavours in the
modern world. Hence, he defines Islamization of modern Western science and its philosophy.

Issues in Islamization of Human Knowledge
Muhammad Mumtaz Ali

ISBN : 978-967-418-314-1
Pages : 198
Price : RM 55.00 / € 20.00
Year : 2019

The issue of Islamization of Human Knowledge is not only a typical
one but has held a marked appeal for scholars and students within
both Islamic education centers and higher institutions of learning
across the world. And yet, despite the extant literature on this issue,
it still remains a topic that is felt to require further attention. This
book aims to make a sincere contribution to this current discourse by
expounding on and organising central themes, inherent within the field
of Islamization of Human Knowledge, that were hitherto scattered. It
is, thus, the first of its kind. One significant argument of this project is
that the rise and fall of any nation is commensurate with a like rise and fall of its intellectual
development. In addition, the author has presented Islamization of Human Knowledge as a
universal and people - oriented perspective and asserted that it should not be perceived as a
mere religious and parochial discourse. Whilst a central theme of this book is on the concept
of methodology of Islamization of Human Knowledge, it does this through the intellectual
discourse of four contemporary thinkers whocould be considered to be ideologues in this field.
They are Kamal Hassan, Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Ismail al-Farūqi, and AbduHamid
Abu Sulayman.