Islam and The English Enlightenment: The Untold Story

Zulfiqar Ali Shah
Paperback, 680 pages
9781800119840

“Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah’s Islam and the English Enlightenment is one of the most profoundly enlightening books I have read in years. Dr. Shah compellingly demonstrates that the thinkers of English Enlightenment were undeniably indebted to Islamic sciences and thought, and that the foundational principles of rationalist thought, scientific inquiry and religious toleration were deeply anchored in the Islamic tradition.” - Khaled Abou El Fadl

Contents:
1. Roman Christianity and Its Socio-Political Thought
2. Islam and the Southern Reformation of Christianity
3. Seventeenth Century England, Overseas Trade and English Identity Formation
4. Enlightenment: A Religious Revolution
5. English Enlightenment and Unitarian Islamic Syncretism
6. Islam and the Early English Enlightenment
7. Henry Stubbe and Muhammadan Christianity
8. John Toland and Muhammadan Christianity
9. John Locke: The Unitarian Heretic
10. Socinianism: The Muslim Bridge
11. John Milton: The Pious Muslim?
12. Isaac Newton: The Enraged Anti-Trinitarian
13. English Unitarians: Pinnacle of Islamic Hybrid 

Zulfiqar Ali Shah received his BA and MA (Hons) in Comparative Religions from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan and his PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Wales, UK. He has taught at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, the University of Wales in the UK, the University of North Florida and Cardinal Stritch University in the US. He is the former president of the Islamic Circle of North America, Shariah Scholars Association of North America, the current Executive Director and Secretary General of the Fiqh Council of North America and Religious Director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee.