Islam

Religion, Practice, Culture & World Order

De: Dr. Ismail Raji Al-Faruqi

Narrado por: Brian T.

Genuine understanding of Islam, the religion, will reveal ... that Islam is a later moment of that very consciousness which produced Judaism and Christianity; that Islam, the culture, is as much a source of the Western civilization of the present millennium as classical Greece and Rome ... that Islam’s anti-clericalism made it the first “Protestant” revolution, that its rationalismmade it the first “Enlightenment,” that its pragmatism made it the first “technocracy,” and that its law of war and peace made it the first “United Nations.

©2012 International Institute of Islamic Thought (P)2023 International Institute of Islamic Thought

A religion of peace

This was very interesting and informative. It provided me with the knowledge of the principles and practices of Islam in an easy to understand way. It also showed how it is not very different from other monotheistic religions.