Preface ix
The Holy Prophet and His Impact on my Life 1
Westernization-a Panoramic View 1 0
Modernization-our Panacea ? 62
The American Metamorphis-Revolution .or Disintegration? 81
The Feminist Movement and the Muslim Woman 98
The Generation Gap-its Causes and Consequences 117
Modern Technology and the Dehumanization of Man 136
Is Western Civilizatlon the Route to Human Welfare ? 191
Is Western Civilization Universal? 251
The Call of Islam to Modern Man 296
Western Civilization versus Islamic Civilization-a Short
Select Bibliography 312

This collection of ten essays, written between
October 1971 and August 1975, is intended for
the English-speaking, modem-educated Muslim in
Muslim lands specifically and for the intelligentsia in
Asia and Africa generally, in order to warn them of the
fatal pitfa11s of modernization; that to copy the West
blindly and uncritically in everything does not provide
any remedy for the social problems of the so-called
'~under-developed," "poor" countries of the East but
rather wilJ only aggravate the predicament in which
they now find themselves in addition to creating
numerous new troubles exported by the West under
the slogan of "modernity." Since in these chapters,
there is much overlapping of the various aspects of the
same subject dealt with here, repetition could not be
avoided. I only hope that the effect of this repetition
on the reader will serve the purpose of emphasis
rather than monotony.
The author does not think it sufficient merely to
denounce westemism as evil and inimical to the spirit
of the Islamic faith and its ~torical culture. Rather
she feels that such condemnation will have no effect
on the educated reader until the all-embracing evil
of contemporary life in every aspect is thoroughly
exposed in careful detail . by quoting at length from
Western sources. Thus the reader will not conclude
that the views of the author are merely the result of
her personal prejudices and narrow-mindedness but

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will instead gain insight into what is wrong with the
modern way of life as related by recognized Western
authorities in their own words.