Contemporary Islamic response to the West is a valuable book written by Dr. Abdul Majid Khan. He has very painstakingly, and with competence, investigated the problem—a tricky one, indeed—and evaluated the contributions of many leading Muslim thinkers to it. He begins, naturally enough, with Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and Iqbal and goes on through Maulana Maudoodi, Syed Qutb and Shariati to Dr. Kalim Siddiqui. The views of all these thinkers are worth pondering ...
