Human Nature in Islam

Human Nature in Islam' explores what such luminaries as Ibn-Abd-alBarr, the greates cholar of Spain, ar-Raghib al-Isfahani and Ibn Taymiyyah have said about this pivotal term from the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Yasien Mohammad tackles the work of writers closer to uor own day. Ali Shariati and Sayyid Qutb, the dualism of whose views the author exposes with other great courtesy and honety. He contrasts Fitrah with other views of human nature such as those of Freud, and B.F.Skinner and opens up the exciting possibility of Muslim thinkers throwing an entirely new light on the working of the human soul.