Islam, Post Modernism and Freedom

Islam, Post Modernism and Freedom

http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/20/islam-post-modernity-and-freedo...

"In the light of the rise of Islam and Islamic resistance to Western colonialism and Israeli barbarism, I became more and more interested in the philosophy of Islam and the answers provided by contemporary Muslim scholars to questions having to do with Being.

It had become clear to me recently that much of the West's so-called 'progressive minds' are in the dark when it comes to Islam; the faith, the politics...It offers a dynamic hermeneutic body of thought that transforms the notion of 'post modernism' from being an empty intellectual rant (on the verge of self-indulgence) into vivid, existential resistance.."intro by Gilad Atzmon