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Ideals and Realities of Islam Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher: ABC International Group, Inc.

€�Ideals and Realities of Islam”, by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, especially his chapter: 'Islam, the Last Religion and the Primordial Religion'. On the whole, Muslims lived up to the Islamic ideals for male-female relations; and they worked. While some may disagree with Shad Saleem's “hybrid” terminology, he does identify a significant part of the problem: The confusion between ideals and realities. The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism. Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. But, even from a distance, the essay came across as so well thought out and written that it has inspired me to read a book that a judge gave me a few years ago -- Ideals and Realities of Islam by Nasr. It rejects the notion of a public/private dichotomy (by the way, absent in early Islamic jurisprudence, orfiqh) conceptualizing a holistic umma in which Quranic ideals are operative in all space. Rather than perceive these expressions as sectarian in a narrow sense, it is more appropriate to recognise them as representing different communities of interpretation with diverse views of how the ideals of Islam might be realised in Ideals and Realities of Islam. Shi'ism: Doctrines, Thought and Spirituality. (5) Islam is a way of life that has compatibility and understanding between ideals - ideals and reality, (6) Islam emphasizes the relationship with God (hablum minanallah) and human relations (hablum minan nas). As we will come to see, Muslim jurists operated in largely theoretical spaces, and throughout history have been forced to negotiate their ideals, with realities on the ground. This is an important distinction. To Compare Religions, Compare their Ideals and their Realities. Ideals.and.Realities.of.Islam.pdf. Sufi, philosophy, Islam, comparative cultures all covered by a master.