IQBAL REVIEW

Journal of the Iqbal Academy Pakistan

Volume: 46 April, Oct. 2005 Number: 2, 4

Special Issue

STUDYING THE RELIGIOUS OTHER

Editor

Muhammad Suheyl Umar

IQBAL ACADEMY PAKISTAN

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Journal of the Iqbal Academy Pakistan

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CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Diversity of Revelation Frithjof Schuon With All Thy Mind Martin Lings (Shaykh Abu Bakr Siraj al-Din) Brilliant Answers to the Wrong Question Postmodernism and the Worlds Religions Huston Smith Islam and Other Religions The Universality and Particularity of Prophecy William C. Chittick Illumination and Non-Delimitation Lessons for Inter and Intra Faith Dialogue from the Wisdom of the Prophet of Islam Reza Shah Kazmi Modern Indian Muslims and Iqbal Dr. Javid Iqbal Quranic Inclusivism in an Age of Globalization Joseph Lumbard The Bosnian Paradigm: The Bosnian Experience of Intercultural Relations Nevad Kahteran The Christian Uses of Secular Postmodernism Merold Westphal Studying the Other, Understanding the Self A Conference on Scripture, Reason, and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter Introduction Studying the Other, Understanding the Self Participants Studying the Other, Understanding the Self 139 142 1 9

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Studying the Western Other, Understanding the Islamic Self: A Quranically Reasoned Perspective Basit Bilal Koshul 147 Voltaires BastardsA Response to Basit Koshuls Studying the Western Other

Muhammad Suheyl Umar Islam, A Prophetic, Dissenting Witness within the Reality of the Modern World: A Response to Basit Koshul Yamine Mermer Islam as our Other, Islam as Ourself Steven Kepnes Beyond Logics of Preservation and Burial: The Display of Distance and Proximity of Traditions in Scriptural Reasoning Nicholas Adams Response to Steven Kepnes Ian Markham Is Scriptural Reasoning Senseless? A Response to Steven Kepnes Martin Kavka Obituary
Tribute Sh. Abu Bakr Siraj al-Din (Dr. Martin Lings) Seyyed Hossein Nasr The Scholar Poet Sh. Abu Bakr Siraj al-Din (Dr. Martin Lings) Muhammad Suheyl Umar

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Frithjof Schuon U.S.A. Martin Lings 3 French Street, Westerham, Kent TN 16 1PN England. Huston Smith U.S.A. William C. Chittick 7-Fowler Lane,

Mt. Snai, NY 11766 U.S.A. Email: wchittick@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Reza Shah Kazmi 4 French Street, Westerham, Kent TN 16 1PN England. Email: rshahkazemi@iis.ac.uk Dr. Javid Iqbal 61-Main Boulevard Gulberg Lahore. Email: arisan@brain.net.pk Joseph Lumbard Assistant Professor Department of Arabic Studies Egypt. Email: jeblumbard@earthlink.net Navad Kahteran Faculty of Philosophy Department of Philosophy and Sociology Franjo Racki 1, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina Email: nevad_Kahteran@hotmail.com Merold Westphal Fordham University New York City, U.S.A. Basit Bilal Koshul Assistant Professor, Religion Department, Concordia College 1107 17th St. S, Moorhead MN 56560, U.S.A. Email: bbk3d@cms.mail.virginia.edu Yamine Mermer PhD (Candidate) Religious Studies, Indiana University, Indiana U.S.A. Email: yamermer@indiana.edu Steve Kepnes Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor in Jewish Studies, Colgate University U.S.A. Email: Skepnes@mail.colgate.edu Nicholas Adams Lecturer, Christian Systematic Theology and Philosophical Theology, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh

Email: n.adams@ed.ac.uk Ian Markham Professor of Theology and Ethics, Dean of Hartford Seminary, Hartford Seminary, 77-Sherman Street, Hartford, CT 06105-2260 U.S.A. Email: imarkham@hartsem.edu Martin Kavka Assistant Professor of Religion, Florida State University, Florida U.S.A. Email: mkavka@fsu.edu Muhammad Suheyl Umar Director, Iqbal Academy Pakistan 6th Floor, Aiwan-i-Iqbal Complex, Egerton Road, Lahore. Pakistan. Tel: 92-42-6314510 Fax: 92-42-6314496 Email: iqbalacd@lhr.comsats.net.pk