Publisher's Synopsis
"Modernity or modernism as a system of thought purporting to be enlightened and universal, has brought with it a crisis of values and a secular perspective that has undermined its own foundations and is provoking a universalized state of existential angst or anomie and moral anarchy. This essay provides a reading of the Islamic view of man as insan against a background of the preoccupations of modernity. The author critiques the rapid devolution society divorced from spiritual tradition in the modern context. The emphasis is on rationality, freedom and morality and the goal is the reintegration of man and the recovery of community through a reconciliation of self and the rediscovery of the essential meaning of divine guidance in so far as it relates to human life in this world. Taking the Qur'an as a divine discourse of many tiers and depths, the work singles out aspects of the discourse on creation and takes it as a pivot for developin
