Book Review

İslam’ı ve Batı’yı Yeniden Düşünmek, Krizler Çağı İçin Yeni Bir Anlatı (Rethinking Islam and The West: A New Narrative for The Age of Crises)

Abstract

How humane is this economic growth perspective? Ahmed Paul Keeler’s seminal work, Rethinking Islam and The West: A New Narrative for The Age of Crises, addresses this question and discusses the problematic aspects of such a dichotomous perspective. It is because Keeler points out, all the crises we experience today are the basic results of this blessed economic growth and progressive view. To him, problems such as industrial capitalism, colonialism, the excesses that nature is exposed to, and global warming are the destructions that this economic-growthist view has brought about today. Humanity has lost its way amid these destructions. According to Keeler, Islam is the only source that can lead humanity back to the right path from its current condition of being lost.