ABSTRACT
This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge debate' and local empirical variations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|74 pages
Introductory Reflections
chapter 1|18 pages
Science Islamized: Localities And Fields of Knowledge
chapter 2|20 pages
The Issues at Stake
chapter 4|20 pages
Images of Intellectuals in Two Distinct Cultures
part II|65 pages
Biographies and Travelling Ideas
chapter 5|11 pages
Isma‘Il Raji Al-Faruqi:Populism, Or The Guerrilla Scholar?
chapter 7|15 pages
Henry Corbin, the Absent Centre
chapter 8|19 pages
Syed Hussein Alatas and Sociological Investigation in Southeast Asia
part III|85 pages
Trajectories