Shaykh Taha Jabir al-Alwani : on issues in contemporary Islamic thought / Taha Jabir al-Alwani Compiled from the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences

Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Islamic thought
1. Some remarks on the islamic and the secular paradigms of knowledge
2. Toward an islamic alternative in thought and knowledge
3. The reconstruction of the muslim mind: The islamization of knowledge
4. The islamization of knowledge: Yesterday and today
5. The islamization of the methodology of the behavioural sciences

Part II: Issues in islamic jurisprudence
1. The crisis of thought and ijthihad
2. Taqlid and the stagnation of the muslim mind
3. Taqlid and ijthihad (part one)
4. Taqlid and ijthihad (part two)
5. The crisis in fiqh and the methodology of ijthihad
6. The role of islamic ijthihad in the regulation and correction of captial markets

Part III: Human rights
1. The testimony of women in Islamic law
2. Naturalization and the rights of citizens
3. The rights of the accused in Islam (part one)
4. The rights of the accused in Islam (part two)

Part IV: Political thought
1. Political science in the legacy of classixal islamic literature
2. Missing dimensions in contemporary Islamic movements
3. Authority: Divine or Qur'anic?

Includes index