Title: Critique of religious thought /
Authors: ʻAzṃ, Sạ̄diq Jalāl,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Islam and politics.; Islam; Faith and reason.; Islam and science.; Socialism and Islam.; Religious thought Arab countries
Abstract: Sadik al-Azm's 'Critique of Religious Thought' set off one of the great Arab intellectual uproars of the twentieth century, leading to the author's imprisonment and trial for mocking religion and inciting sectarian conflict. As in his earlier 'Self-Criticism after the Defeat', al-Azm takes on the taboos of the age and their sponsors: the religious elites. In this book he attempts to awaken the Arab mind from its dogmatic slumber, leading it out of the Middle Ages and into a modern world characterized by science and rationality.
Contents: Scientific culture and the poverty of religious thought -- The tragedy of Satan (Iblis) -- Reply to a criticism -- The miracle of the apparation of the Virgin and the eradication of the traces of aggression -- Deception in contemporary Western Christian thought -- Introduction to the scientific-materialist conception of the universe and its development.