Muslim Response to the West
摘要
The chapter discusses the approaches (accommodative and cynical) of the Muslim minds to deal with the onslaught of the westernization and the way out. As it has been the challenging task for the Muslim thinkers to respond to the Western onslaught and manage the Western domination in the Muslim lands. The chapter gives an account of the response of the major Muslim intellectuals of the Muslim world like Jamal al-Din Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, Muhammad Iqbal and Ali Shariati who are contemporaneous with or have their influence on Said Nursi and some prominent thinkers of the Turkey like Namik Kamal, Said Halim Pasha and Zia Gokalp and their approaches to deal with the problems Muslim world faced in order to provide a comparative touch to the book.