{"title":"Society \u0026 Politics","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"empire-and-the-crescent-the-global-implications-for-a-new-american-century","title":"Empire and the Crescent: The Global Implications for a New American Century","description":"\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eTimely, eye-opening and engaging. Essential read for those who are interested in understanding America's new imperial role in the Middle East.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eThe Empire \u0026amp; the Crescent invites readers to examine the role of the United States in world politics, and draws their attention to the dangers that open-ended and unchecked American power can cause to the world and ultimately, to itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eWith contributions from Hamza Yusuf, William Blum, Zaid Shakir, Edward Sherman, Barbara Metcalf, Abdal Hakim Murad and other eminent scholars and experts, this anthology offers a timely and authoritative perspective on the question of relations between the West and Islamic societies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eDr. Aftab Ahmad Malik is an editor and author of The Broken Chain: Reflections upon the Neglect of a Tradition. His articles have appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines including, the BBC, The Muslim Weekly, and The Arab News. Ibrahim M. Abu Rabi' is a professor of Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut. He is also the co-editor of The Muslim World and the author of Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword By\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIbrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘ (1956-2011) was Professor and Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities Chair in Islamic Studies in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His primary areas of academic specialization were the Middle East and International Relations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eProf. Abu-Rabi‘ earned his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, with concentrations in Modern Islamic Thought and Comparative Islamic Cultures, from the Temple University Department of Religion in 1987. His dissertation was entitled, “Islam and Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt: An Intellectual Biography of Shaykh al-Azhar ‘Abd al-Halim Mahmud.” Prior to that, he earned a M.A. in Religious Studies from Temple University (1983) and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati (1982). Prof. Abu-Rabi‘ was born and attended primary and secondary schools in Nazareth, Galilee, Palestine\/Israel. He was fluent in English, Arabic, Hebrew, French, German, and Turkish.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e-------------------------\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\".. a very useful look at key issues facing all of us today.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e—Barry Lando, former producer CBS 60 Minutes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"Timely, eye-opening and engaging. Essential read for those who are interested in understanding America's new imperial role in the Middle East and its future impact on the relationship between Islam and the Western world.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e—Dr Haifaa Jawad, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"…resonates with a commitment to common humanity by laying down a challenge to the extremism of the US Empire and to extremism in the Islamic world.The essays are powerful, extremely readable and significant in their content: ideal for the general reader and highly recommended for academic courses in world politics.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e—Dr. Eric Herring, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Bristol\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"This is one of the most important books to appear since September 11th..\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e—Mark Curtis, Author of Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"As public-minded people around the globe strive to make sense of the times we are in--especially the nature and aims of American power in relation to the Middle East--this collection is an indispensable resource.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e—Wendy Brown, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"...a book that is compelling and authoritative.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e—BBC Religion and Ethics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"...offers a chilling insight into the neo-conservative worldview and impact their proliferating think tanks have on present US policy.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e—Dr Philip Lewis, Author of, Islamic Britain: Religion, Politics and Identity Among British Muslims. Inter-faith Adviser to the Bishop of Bradford and lecturer in Bradford University Department of Peace Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"This is one of the most important books to appear since September 11th..\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e—Mark Curtis, Author of: Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"Like their compatriots in the heartlands, it appears that Muslims in the West must, more than ever, take a double stand against the extremists in their midst and against the rise of the American hyper-power on the back of the ‘war on terrorism’, an approach admirably outlined by The Empire and the Crescent: Global Implications for a New American Century [...]\" —Muslim World Book Review, 24\/2, Winter 2004\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"The case for urgent re-evaluation and re-formulation of American foreign policy is made very eloquently\" —The Muslim News.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amal Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47673505579316,"sku":"AP004","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/5031\/5572\/files\/Empire-and-the-Crescent_-The-Global-Implications-for-a-New-American-Century-Amal-Press-40086935.jpg?v=1780381033"},{"product_id":"injustice-and-the-unjust","title":"Injustice and the Unjust","description":"\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eJustice is a fundamental part of Islam and is exemplified in every aspect of Shariah. Consequently, injustice has a destructive effect upon the whole fabric of society, resulting in corruption, rancor, distortion of the truth, and anarchy amongst the masses.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eAllah and His \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meccabooks.com\/113-prophet-muhammad-pbuh\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eProphet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e have instructed us to be just in our dealings and treatment of people. The great calamity of this world is that we seek the help of the wrongdoer and help them in spite of their injustice The late famous Egyptian scholar Shaykh Muhammad Mitwalli al-Sha'rawi examines this subject in his own inimitable way, making copious use of the Qur'an and Sunnah. The book also contains the views of two great Classical Scholars of Islam, Ibn Taymiya and Ibn Rajab.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eMuhammad Mutawalli Ash-Sha'raawi (April 5, 1911– June 17, 1998) was an Islamic scholar and former Egyptian minister of Endowments. He has been called one of Egypt's most popular and successful Islamic preachers, and \"one of the most-prominent symbols of popular Egyptian culture\" in the decades of 1970, the 80s, and 90s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eAfter graduating in 1940, he went on to earn his teaching certification in 1943. He later graduated from the religious institution of Tanta, before moving to another at Zagazig and then, finally, at Alexandria. In 1950, he moved to Saudi Arabia to work as a professor of Sharee'ah at the University of Ummul-Quraa. However, in 1963, the diplomatic relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia worsened and it became impossible for him to return to Arabia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eInstead, he took the position of manager of the office of the Imam of Al-Azhar, Hasan al Ma'amoon. Later, he traveled to Algeria as a head of the Al-Azhar expedition, where he stayed for seven years. During his stay in Algeria, the war of June 1967 occurred and Egypt suffered tremendous losses to Israel. Ironically, Ash-Sha'raawi 'praised' the defeat, saying \"Egypt did not gain victory while the hands of communism surround them and their religion remains uncorrupted.\" Later, he did get to return to teach at \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_Abdulaziz_University\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eKing Abdul Azeez University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e in Saudi Arabia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eAlsharawi was the host of a very popular Friday afternoon TV program preaching Islam.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eOn reflection of his influence was the Egyptian parliament's repeated blocking of legislation permitting organ-transplant operations, after Alsharawi issued a Fatwā declaring such operations Haraam (sinful)(in case organs are sold and not just \"donated\") on the grounds that `humans do not own their bodies’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dar Al Taqwa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47673637568820,"sku":"DT043","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/5031\/5572\/files\/Injustice-and-the-Unjust-Dar-Al-Taqwa-40108025.jpg?v=1780388393"},{"product_id":"king-of-the-castle","title":"King of the Castle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines closely many of the unquestioned assumptions by which we live our lives, comparing them with the beliefs that have shaped and guided human life in the past. It begins with a consideration of how secular societies attempt to possess their citizens, body and soul and how, as a consequence, the necessity of redefining human responsibility becomes an ever more urgent imperative.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe book continues with a presentation of the traditional view of man as ‘God’s Viceroy on Earth’, with an eye to its practical implications in a world that has all but forgotten, under the pressure of mass social persuasion, that man must always be free to choose his own ultimate destiny. The author’s thesis is a passionate yet incisive plea for the restoration of the sacred norms of religion, as against the debilitating and falsifying aims of a profane world-view based on no more than recent scientific and technological achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘This marvelous book...abounds with penetrating insights...The most remarkable quality of the book however is its courage.’\u003c\/em\u003e Fourth World Review\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘This is a book of the utmost importance to anyone concerned...with the really basic questions of human life.’\u003c\/em\u003e Country Life\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘This is an urgent piece of writing, a reading of what we are and where we are.’\u003c\/em\u003e TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ctable\u003e\r\n\u003ctbody\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUnreal Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cost of Wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLiberty and Obedience.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMan in Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMan as Viceroy.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eKnowledge and its Counterfeits.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Only Heritage We Have.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003ctd\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhat We Are and Where We Are.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/td\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\r\n\u003c\/table\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf, by some strange device, a man of our century could step backwards in time and mix with the people of a distant age he would have good cause to doubt either their sanity or his own. Mountains, forests and the blue sky would look familiar enough, but they would not be seen by the people around him in the way he saw them. Their physical features might be the same, but their meaning would be different.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe would know what common sense is and what constitutes human normality. So would the people amongst whom he found himself, but their common sense would differ from his and their normality might seem to him abnormal. Questioning everything they took for granted and amazed that they should be so unquestioning in their assumptions, he would find that all he took for granted was brought into question. His ‘Why?’ would be met with their ‘Why?, and he would not know the answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom our present position we can see how limited were the beliefs and ideas of earlier times and other cultures, how many avenues were left unexplored and how many opportunities missed. It is easy to suppose that, in changing our perspective, we have escaped from the limitations inherent in human thinking and human vision. Yet our faculties and our senses are the same. We are not a new species, and to compare our own world view with any other is merely to compare different kinds of limitation, as though a man tunneling his way out of prison were to emerge within the perimeter, exchanging one cell for another.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSo it must always be unless the prisoner learns that freedom lies in quite another direction, never through the tunnel of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLike those who came before us we have chosen—or had chosen on our behalf—certain particular objectives out of the multitude of possibilities open to man and, like them, we ignore everything that seems irrelevant to our purpose. This purpose is determined by the assumptions we take for granted, the axioms which seem to us to demand no proof, the moral imperatives which appear self-evident and therefore unarguable. We are rational creatures, certainly, but reason does not operate in a vacuum or spin the premises of argument out of its own substance. It must start from somewhere. Certain propositions must be accepted as self-evident before our minds will function, and one can reason as well on the basis of a false proposition as upon that of a true one.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA man in a dark place mistakes a coil of rope for a snake. From then on his logic may be impeccable, his behavior entirely reasonable; but he is still wrong. It is the basic assumptions which determine all the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMy intention in this book is to take a long, hard look at some of the basic assumptions of our age, to question the unquestionable and to cast doubt upon propositions which appear self-evident. This cannot be done without, at the same time, suggesting the outlines of quite a different perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNo one can extricate himself completely from the conditioning of his own period and environment. Consciously or unconsciously, we are all of us to some extent held captive by the clinging vines of our particular jungle and at home in these bonds. They are, indeed, like extensions of our selves and correspond to deeply rooted habits of thought and of feeling. It is not easy to break free, but, precisely because we are human, it is not impossible. Between earth and sky, among all living creatures and all the earth’s ornaments, man alone is capable of some degree of detachment from his temporal matrix.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBut to break free is not to float away into the void. No one could live and think in a moral and intellectual no-man’s-land. To be able to look critically and objectively at the ground upon which the people of our time have taken their stand, one must have firm ground beneath one’s own feet. To diagnose the ills of the time one must possess standards of health.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe point of view from which this book is written is, in the first place, Islamic. This does not mean that Muslims in general would necessarily endorse the views expressed or that I propose to put forward a specifically Islamic critique of Western, post-Christian civilisation. What it does mean is that this view is rooted in the Muslim faith and in a soil quite different to that which supports either the modernistic Christian or the modern atheist.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSecondly, this perspective is founded upon a belief in the essential unity of the great religions as deriving from a single source of Revelation, and in a perennial wisdom expressed not only through the religions but also in the myths and symbols of ancient peoples (and of what are commonly called ‘primitive’ human groups up to the present day), a wisdom which may be said to inhere in the deepest level of our being so that we need only to be reminded of it in order to rediscover the truth within ourselves. This belief is in fact an extension of the Islamic perspective, for Islam is by definition the final Revelation in this human cycle and the final crystallization of that wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLastly and, one might say, as a logical consequence, my concern is with human ‘normality’ as it has been understood through the ages and in a vast diversity of cultures: the nature and the status of man as man, the two-legged creature standing upright in his blue and green world, face-to-face with his God. Only in terms of an immutable norm can one even begin to consider what choice men have in their lives and what responsibility is theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles le Gai Eaton\u003c\/strong\u003e (also known as \u003cstrong\u003eHasan le Gai Eaton\u003c\/strong\u003e or \u003cstrong\u003eHassan Abdul Hakeem\u003c\/strong\u003e; 1 January 1921 – 26 February 2010) was a British diplomat, writer and Sufist Islamic scholar. He was born in Switzerland and educated at Charterhouse at King’s College, Cambridge. He worked for many years as a teacher and journalist in Jamaica and Egypt (where he embraced Islam in 1951) before joining the British Diplomatic Service. 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