Al-Din

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Muhammad Abdullah Draz's effort to blend a view of European philosophy and science with Islamic spiritual traditions is at last available in an excellent English translation. Draz's fascinating conceptualization of method and approach, which blends the claims of Tylor, Van der Leeuw, Kant, Descartes, Durkheim, Mueller, and James with categories and perspectives native to Islam results in a stunningly ambitious twentieth-century foray into the history of religions. The English prose is sharp and precise, and the editing and production first-rate. Congratulations to I. B. Tauris for taking on this project. * John Corrigan, Florida State University, USA * This volume offers a valuable annotated translation of the work of one of Egypt's most important Islamic scholars from the last century. It will allow readers of English to learn about what is arguably the most significant Islamic intervention from the period into debates in the sociology of religion. Anyone interested in provincializing Europe in the study of religion should read this. * Usaama al-Azami, Oxford University, UK *