Author: Dr. Louay M. Safi
Publisher: A S Noordeen (Malaysia)
Pages: 154 Binding: Paperback
Truth and Reform - Exporing the Patterns and Dynamics of Historical Change is written by Louay M Safi .
The book describe the all important factors that play important role in the Dynamics of Historical Change around the globe.
Louay M. Safi a leading Muslimscholar,prominenteducationist and professor ofInternationalIslamic University of Malaysia, has madeaninfluentialcontribution by writing`
Truth and
Reform’
. This book is not only fora group of people but it is a contemporary analytical exchangeof ideas for all. Thebookof 143 pages was published by The Open press, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysiain the year 1998.ISBN 983-9541-02-1.
Truth and Reform
examines the relationship in the midst of truth and social reform,Symontenously
it’s
explores very evidently the patterns and dynamics of historical change.Writerproperly givesexplanation here that
Truth
is the Beyondthe Transcendental Realityor
Tawhidic
worldviewwhichprovides meaning and guidance to the existential world of mankind.Man grows and matures in social and natural world: provide himwith opportunities to explore hiscapabilities and potential, and both impose limitations on his actions.On the other hand
Reform
isa historical processamidat transforming social conditions.Final aims arethere materially andorganizationally sociallife is inspiredby a set of beliefs and values derived from and based onultimate truth.In this book he successfully focusing on the processof reform, and exploring itsrelationship to truth, an attempt is made tooffer analternative perspective for analyzing andassessing developmental trends.This study aspires to overcome two positionswith regard to socialdevelopment:among westernand Muslimthinkers.The evolutionary conception of historyemphasis the economic andtechnological aspects of life at the expense of the moral and the cultural. Thisis anunbalancedconception. Writer discuss on comparativelyof historicalchange is rooted in theontological andmetaphysical commitments of the two most influential philosophers of historyin modern times:
Hegel’s
pantheism and
Marx’s
materialism. Both were ignored the importance of moral choicesin determining social conditions.On the other hand extreme stand the bulk of contemporaryIslamic thinkers who, recognizing the Quranic emphasis on moral commitment, advance aconception of history in which morality and the commitment to revealed values take centre stage.Cotemporary Islamic scholarsoverlook, however, the importance the humancreativity,manifested in such forms as intellectualism and technology, for social development.The book is written in nine chapters.Writer triestoa creative synthesis of the two ext