The Process of Islamization
by Dr. Ja`far Sheikh Idris
© 1977 The Muslim Students' Association of the
US and Canada
Fourth Printing - January 1983
The Process of Islamization
From the Foreword by by Mahmoud Rashdan:
"The Islamization Process - Its Challenges and Promises" was the theme
of the M.S.A.'s 13th Annual Convention, held at the University of Toledo,
Toledo, Ohio at the end of August 1975.
This booklet is a revised version of Professor Idris' presentation at the
convention. It is being published in book from owing to its
scholarly merit and in response to requests from the M.S.A. membership.
...Dr. Idris' presentation on the "Process of Islamization" has the
credit of being vivid and systematic. The reader will find the writer
clear and direct in his treatment of this important topic. He does not
leave the reader to speculate on where he stands on controversial positions but
rather states his position clearly and yet without any pretension of "I
know better" and without the "protection" of confusing the
professional jargon which so frequently plagues "westernized" Muslim
scholars. To his credit also, Dr. Idris refers to the Qur'an directly to
derive the Islamic theory of social change. He raises questiosn and does
not hesitate to give his answers. He suggests that the social law of
change is contained in the verse:
"Surely God does not change the state in which
a people are until they change that which is in themselves." [ar-Ra`d,
11]...
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