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Social and Historical Change : An Islamic Perspective (Contemporary Islamic Thought. Persian Series) (Contemporary Islamic Thought. Persian Series)
Social and Historical Change An Islamic Perspective - Contemporary Islamic Thought. Persian Series Author:Murtaza Mutahhari, Hamid Algar In these two essays, the late Muslimscholar Murtaza Mutahhari examines society and history. His discussion demonstrates clearly his wide-ranging knowledge of Western as well as Eastern thought through the ages. One of Mutahhari's principal aims is to refute historical materialism. To his mind, the theory is both invalid and incompatible with Is... more »lam, despite published views of some Muslim intellectuals who cite sacred texts to support it. Mutahhari explains exactly where they misread the Qur'an and refers to numerous other verses as he argues the Marxism, dialectical materialism, and historical materialism are Western theories totally at odds with vitually every facet of Islamic thought.« less