Contents

1   The clash of civilisations: background to the debate and work outlined

2   The Historical versus the Transhistorical: terms defined

3   Nietzsche's religiosity

4   The soul as text: the Qur'anic paradigm

5   The soul as deriving from Jahiliyya

6   The soul as deriving from the time of the Prophet and Rashidun

7   The real threat: Islam's Platonism behind the mask of liberalism

Notes

Bibliography

Index