Seyyed Hossien Nasr, Islam in the Modern World: Changed by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

Abstract

Islam in the Modern World, is yet another contribution of the Traditionalist perspective by Seyyed Hossein Nasr to an ongoing intellectual discussion concerning Islam and its increasing role in the modern world. As the current state of world affairs portrays, Islam is no longer a religion discussed only in certain academic circles here and there, but rather a subject that is hardly missing from any major headlines of the international media. In the past, the image of Islam, especially in the West, have been distorted as a consequence of the negative and biased representation of it by some Orientalists, Islamicists and missionaries.