<DIV><p><B>Tariq Ramadan</B> attempts to demonstrate, using sources which draw upon Islamic thought and civilization, that Muslims can respond to contemporary challenges of modernity without betraying their identity. The book argues that Muslims, nurished by their own points of reference, can approach the modern epoch by adopting a specific social, political, and economic model that is linked to ethical values, a sense of finalities and spirituality. Rather than a modernism that tends to impose Westernization, it is a modernity that admits to the pluralism of civilizations, religions, and cultures.</p> <p><B>Table of Contents:</B><BR>Foreword<BR>Introduction<BR>History of a Concept<BR>The Lessons of History<BR>Part 1: At the shores of Transcendence: between God and Man<BR>Part 2: The Horizons of Islam: Between Man and the Community<BR>Part 3: Values and Finalities: The Cultural Dimension of the Civilizational Face to Face<BR>Conclusion<BR>Appendix<BR>Index</p> <p><B>Tariq Ramadan</B> is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor in Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University. He was named by <I>TIME</I> Magazine as one of the one hundred innovators of the twenty-first century.</p></DIV>