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Although this clearly is not a novel subject for the pages of the journal, this thematic issue brings to its readership a number of informed perspectives that contribute significantly to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon as it relates to the contemporary Islamic experience.
The author discusses the responses of such contemporary thinkers as Iqbal, Qutb, Mawdudi, al-Faruqr, al-Attas, al-Alwani, and Abf. tSulayman on the subject of modernization and concludes by suggesting a four-phase project for the modernization of Islamic thought While the next contribution to the journal's theme takes the Indian subcontinent as its venue, its discussion of modernization, like the work of the poet Iqbal himself, is directed toward the entire ummah.
Khaleefa challenges, in his "The Imperialism of Euro-American Psychology in non-Western Cultures: An Attempt toward an Ummatic Psychology," the notion that psychology, defined as the scientific study of human behavior, is based on theories and methods that are universal or objective and therefore valid for all peoples and under all circumstances.