Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: The Present-day Condition of Man; 1. Contemporary Western Man between the Rim and the Axis; 2. The Dilemma of the Present-day Muslim; Part II: The Comparative Method and the Study of the Islamic Intellectual Heritage in the West; 3. Metaphysics and Philosophy East and West: Necessary Conditions for Meaningful Comparative Study; 4. The Significance of the Comparative Method for the Study of the Islamic Intellectual and Spiritual Heritage; Part III: The Islamic Tradition and the Current Problems of Modern Man; 5. The Spiritual Needs of Western Man and the Message of Sufism; 6. The Harmony of Contemplation and Action in Islam; Part IV: The Contemporary Muslim between Islam and the Modern World; 7. Islam in the Islamic World Today; 8. Islam in the Arab World in the 14th Islamic Century; 9. Islam in Persia, to the Threshold of the New Islamic Century; 10. Decadence, Deviation and Renaissance: Their Meaning in the Context of Contemporary Islam; 11. The Western World and its Challenges to Islam; Part V: Postscript; 17. Islam at the Dawn of the Third Christian Millennium; 18. Reflections upon Islam and the West-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Index.