Synopsis Islamic Studies and the European Imagination; Philosophus Autodidactus: Lineage and Perspective; The Place of Rumi in Muslim Thought; Neoplatonism and its Impact on Muslim Thought; Al-Ash ‘ari and Mu’tazilites on Evil; Perfect Man according to Ibn Al-‘Arbi; Methodology of Understanding Islam; Al-Farabi and His Theory of Dreams; Muhammad Ali’s Islamic Weltanschauung: An Appraisal; The Predicament of the Muslim Intelligentsia; Developments of the Thought; Development of Dogma; The Future of Islamic Studies; Iqbal’s Religious Thought; Islamization of Knowledge: The General Principles and the Workplan; and Islamization Through Art: Implications for Education etc. are the major themes, discussed in this book.The scholars, the student and the layman will find in this volume not only a generous selection of reprinted articles, but original essays, bibliographies, and other materials brought for the first time in a comprehensive and exhaustive fashion.