Al-Din

Dr. Yahya Haidar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sciences and Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai, UAE. M.A. Draz (1894-1958) obtained his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, before returning to Cairo where he became Professor of Islamic Studies at Al Azhar University. At his death in 1958 he had established himself as one of the world's leading Islamic scholars.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Editor’s Introduction
M. A. Draz
Al-Din: Background, context and summary
Note on the translation

Introduction: A brief overview of the history of the study of religions
The pharaonic age
The Hellenic age
The Roman age
The Christian age
The Islamic age
The European Renaissance

1 Determining the meaning of ‘religion’


2 Religion, morality, philosophy and science
Religion and morality
Religion and philosophy
Religion and the sciences

3 Humanity’s natural religious inclination
The antiquity of religions
The future of religion in the face of scientific progress
Sources of the religious sentiment in human nature
The social function of religions

4 On the origin of belief in God
Underlying factors in the human mind
Naturalism
Animism
Psychology
Morality
Sociology
Revelation

Conclusion
Editor’s Bibliography
Author’s Bibliography
Index