TY - BOOK AU - Akhtar,Shabbir TI - The Quran and the secular mind: a philosophy of Islam SN - 9780415437820 (hardback) U1 - 241 20A PY - 2008/// CY - New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Koran KW - Evidences, authority, etc KW - Islam and secularism KW - Islamic philosophy N1 - Index; Notes bibliogr; Pt. I. Quranic Islam and the secular mind -- Locating Islam in the modern world -- Human reason and divine revelation -- The moral challenge of secular humanism -- Pt. II. An Arabic Quran: assessing its authority -- The book sent down -- The book as the frustrater -- The scope of the book -- The authority of the book -- Pt. III. A Quranic Lebenswelt in a secular age -- A sign is enough - for the wise -- Faith and the varieties of rejection -- Human nature and the Quran -- greater is God! -- Pt. IV. Conclusions -- Preface to a philosophy of Islam ER -