Intellectual Traditions in Islam - My Closing Comments

I started reading this book "Intellectual Traditions in Islam" like an explorer who knew the homeland well but did not know the world beyond his or her own homeland. I understood many traditions of Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) but beyond that I was curious and inquisite to know Islam from points of views and interpretations. I wanted to understand the underpinning thought a little better. It was like a "mapwalk" from history to the current times. All the authors of the different essays worked as a travel route helping the reader to understand the origin of their interpretation of divine guidance and leaving the reader at the intersection to choose his or her own path further.

It is a wonderful book for all those people who share the same curiousity as mine. It requires an open mind of a reader, just like a traveller who sees the places with his or her own eyes and through the tales and stories of the host of the place. Certainly this book is worth a read, with an advanced dictionary beside you to fully comprehend the content of the book.

To create some ease for the readers I wrote some "Words of the Day" for better understanding of the content, using "Websters" and "Collins" Dictionaries and for Islamic terms I used "Dictionary of Islam" by Azim Nanji.