A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World
Reviewed by Robert Siegel of NPR's All Things Considered, the interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr won the award for the best radio interview of the year. The author says in this brilliant work, The West has produced many orientalists who have studied Islam from their own point of view, but the Islamic world has produced very few occidentalists who can study the various aspects of Western civilization from its science to art, from religion to social behavior, from the Islamic point of view. Through these Muslim maps of the modern intellectual landscape, the author challenges two fronts: young Muslims to become familiar with their religion and cultural roots and to gain an understanding of the modern world from the Islamic point of view. This guide for the Muslim to the modern worldthe first of its kind in any languagepresents the eternal truths of Islam as well as Western religious and intellectual tradition as they confront each other in today's world. --Robert Siegel of NPR's All Things Considered