pt. I. Introductory reflections -- Science Islamized : localities and fields of knowledge -- The issues at stake -- Landscapes, variations and perceptions : contrasts between Egypt and Malaysia -- Images of intellectuals in two distinct cultures -- pt. II. Biographies and travelling ideas -- Ismaʻil Raji al-Faruqi : populism, or the guerrilla scholar? -- S.N. al-Attas : the beacon on the crest of a hill or the fusion of a military ethos with science? -- Henry Corbin, the absent centre -- Syed Hussein Alatas and sociological investigation in southeast Asia -- pt. III. Trajectories -- The Islamization of knowledge debate in Egypt : the Cairo office -- Cultural invasion -- Faith and science -- Counter images; secular responses -- Women's reactions towards Islamization in Malaysia -- Concluding remarks
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index
