Western Civilisation Through Muslim Eyes

Western Civilisation Through Muslim Eyes by SAYID MUJTABA RUKNI MUSAWI LARI Translated by F. J. GOULDING Foreword by Haj Abu'l-Fazl Hazeghi vii Translator's Note by F. J. Goulding xi Part...

Western Civilisation Through Muslim Eyes by SAY...

CHAPTER 12 The Jihad — the Holy War Islam's aim, in its wars, battles and national uprisings against polytheism and materialism, has not been conquest, expansionism, imperialism or the seizure...

CHAPTER 12 The Jihad — the Holy War Islam's aim,...

CHAPTER 13 Islam and World Peace A peace imposed by an imperialist power controlling the masses for its own benefit is no peace. "Divide and Rule" generates no peace. Conferences,...

CHAPTER 13 Islam and World Peace A peace imposed...

CHAPTER 7 Islam and Racism The "Unity" is the basis of Islamic theology: and therefore "Unity" is the ground of its philosophy of society. All humanity is one; a great...

CHAPTER 7 Islam and Racism The "Unity" is the ba...

CHAPTER 13 Chemistry Jaber ibn Haiyan, disciple of the sixth Imam Ja'afar-i-Sadeq, became known world-wide as "the Father of Chemistry" and of Arab alchemy. His influence on Western chemistry and...

CHAPTER 13 Chemistry Jaber ibn Haiyan, disciple ...

CHAPTER 5 Temporary Marriages Islam is a realistic and practical religion. Divinely inspired, it fits human nature like a glove. It does not exalt, as ideals, ways of life which...

CHAPTER 5 Temporary Marriages Islam is a realist...

CHAPTER 8 Islam and Intellectual Advance Most Westerners are ignorant of the debt their civilisation owes to Islam, even for modern industrial transformation, scientific advance and philosophical enterprise. Islam...

CHAPTER 8 Islam and Intellectual Advance Most We...

CHAPTER 2 Islam and the Family While the warp of society is the individual person and the woof is social order, the unit of the design is the family. Families...

CHAPTER 2 Islam and the Family While the warp of...

CHAPTER 4 Islam and Divorce The first point this chapter must make is that divorce is contrary to the laws of nature. The annulling of the marriage-bond and the separation...

CHAPTER 4 Islam and Divorce The first point this...

CHAPTER 8 Christianity and Islam in Africa The Christian religious establishment has no fears of Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, since these are religions of national groups which exert little influence...

CHAPTER 8 Christianity and Islam in Africa The C...

CHAPTER 17 Apartheid The theory of apartheid, based on the utterances of some innovating thinker ("philosopher") denies racial equality. Its promoters want "the superior race" to run the world while...

CHAPTER 17 Apartheid The theory of apartheid, ba...

PART 2 ISLAM'S GIFTS TO THE WORLD CHAPTER 1 Islam Islam stands for harmony and perfectibility with an unmatched depth and breadth of scope that comprises all aspects of spirit...

PART 2 ISLAM'S GIFTS TO THE WORLD CHAPTER 1 Isla...

CHAPTER 13 Old Worship For all their propaganda machines and temporal power, the Western churches' intervention in cultural and social matters, and their religious preaching to refine morality and make...

CHAPTER 13 Old Worship For all their propaganda ...

CHAPTER 5 Islam and Nationhood Today, alas, the symptoms of an inferiority-complex over Western industrial prowess and its deadly consequences mark everything in Eastern nations' life. Many a Muslim is...

CHAPTER 5 Islam and Nationhood Today, alas, the ...

PART I : PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE WEST CHAPTER 1 Genesis of Human Life and Civilisation Every advance in scientific research into the origins of life on this planet pushes the...

PART I : PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE WEST CHAPTER 1 Genes...

CHAPTER 4 Materialist Europe's Religious Practice So far has the materialist spirit infiltrated civilised peoples that today you will find hardly one European with any aim in life loftier than...

CHAPTER 4 Materialist Europe's Religious Practice...

FOREWORD by HAJ ABU'L-FAZL HAZEGHI Sayid Mujtaba Musawi Lari was born in AHS 1314 (AD 1934) in Lar, capital of the southern Iranian province of Laristan. Both his father,...

FOREWORD by HAJ ABU'L-FAZL HAZEGHI Sayid Mujtab...