CONTRIBUTION OF

ORIENTALISTS TO THE
MUSLIM WORLD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR MD YOUSUF ALI

ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THOUGHT
AQIDAH AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES, FKP, USIM
 First, The Tremendous Literature of Islam

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 Second, The Mushrooming of Islamic Studies
and Institutions

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 Third, Augmentation of the Scientific
Approach to Understanding Islam

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 Fourth, Unpredictable Positive Impact on
Islamic Resurgence

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 Fifth, Enhancing Objective Understanding on
Islam

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 WORKS OF OERIENTAISTS
FOR/AGAINST ISLAM

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 1. The works of Louis Massignon (1883-1962) on
Islam are 17 titles:

1. Akhbar al-Hallaj: 2. Akhbar al-Hallaj, 3. Cours d‫ص‬histoire des 4. Les entretiens de

The works of Louis
recueil d’oraisons et texte ancient relatif a la termes philosophiques Lahore (entre le Prince
Massignon (1883-1962)
d’exortations du martyr predication et au arabes (du 25 novembre Imperial Dara Shikuh
on Islam are 17 titles:
mystique de 1’Islam supplice di mysti (1936) 1912 au 24 av (1983) et’1’ascete Hindo

6. Essai sur les origines 8. Etude sur les

5. Essai sur les origines 9. Kitab al tawasin, par
du lexique technique de ‫ز‬isnad‫س‬,ou, Chaines de
du lexique technique de 7. Essay. English. Abou al moghith al
la mystique temoignages
la mystique Selection (!989) Hosayn ibn Mansour al
musulamane. English fondamentales dans la
musulamane./Nouvell Hallaj al Baydhaw.
(1994) tradition.

10. Melanges Louis

Massignon (1956-58).

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 1. The works of Louis Massignon (1883-1962) on
Islam are 17 titles:

15. La Passion de
La Mubahala: etude sur 12. Opera minora/textes
14. Passion de Husayn Husayn Ibn Mansur
la proposition recueillis, classes et 13. Parole donnee
Ibn Mansur al-Hallaj. Hallaj: martyr mystique
d‫ص‬ordalie faite par le presentes avec une (1983)
English (1982). de l‫ص‬Islam, execute a
prophete Muhammad. bibliographie pa (1963).
B

17. La revelation
16. Presence de Louis
d’Hermes
Massignon: hommages
(1975). (1987). Trismegiste.../Paris, J.
et temoignages/ textes
Gabalda, 1949-54 [v.1.
reunis par Daniel
1950] 4.

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 2. The Works of William Montgomery Watt
on Islam are 34 titles:
• Der Islam / von W. Montgomery Watt, Alford T. Welch; [von d (1980).

• 2. Islam and Christianity Today: A Contribution to dialogue (1983).

• 3. Islam and Christianity Today: A Contribution to dialogue 1 (1991).

• 4. Muslim-Christian Encounters: Perception and Misperceptions (1991).

• 5. Early Islam: Collected articles (1990).

• 6. Islamic Creeds / translated by Montgomery Watt (1994).

• 7. Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity, (1988).

• 8. Islamic Philosophy and Theology: An Extended Survey (1985).

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 2. The Works of William Montgomery Watt
on Islam are 34 titles:
• 9. Muhammad‫ص‬s Mecca: History in the Qur‫ص‬an (1988).

• 10. The Authenticity of the Works Attributed to al-Ghazali. 15

• 11. Companion to the Qur‫ص‬an, based in the Arberry translation.

• 12. The dating of the Qur‫ص‬an: A Review of Richard Bell‫ص‬s Theory.

• 13. A Forgery in al-Ghazali‫ص‬s Mishkat? / London, Royal Asiatic.

• 14. Pemikiran Teologi dan Filsafat Islam (1987). [Translation from English].

• 15. Politik Islam dalam Lintasan Sejarah (1988). [Translation from English].

• 16. The Formative Period of Islamic Thought (1973).

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 2. The Works of William Montgomery Watt
on Islam are 34 titles:
• 17. A History of Islamic Spain (with additional sections on lite) 1965.

• 18. The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe.

• 19. Introduction to the Qur‫ص‬an / completely revised and enlarged (1970).

• 20. Islam and the Integration of Society. London, Routledge, (1961).

• 21. Islam, past Influence and Future Challenge/ Edited by Alfor (1979).

• 22. Islamic Philosophy and Theology (1962).

• 23. Islamic Political Thought: The Basic Concepts (1968).

• 24. Islamic Revelation in the Modern World (1969).

• 25. The Majesty that was Islam (The Islamic World 661-1100./Lo.)

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 2. The Works of William Montgomery Watt
on Islam are 34 titles:
• 26. Muhammad at Mecca (1953).

• 28. Muhammad at Medina (1956).

• 29. Muhammad: Prophet and Stateman (1976).

• 30. Muslim Intellectual: A Study of al-Ghazali (1963)

• 31. The Political Attitudes of the Mu‫ص‬tazilah.

• 32. Shi‫ص‬ism Under the Umayyads.

• 33. Truth in the Religions: A Sociological and Philosophical Approach (1963).

• 34. What is Islam? (1979).

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 3. The Works of Wilfred Cantwell Smith are
15 titles:
1. Belief and History (1977).

2. Faith and Belief (1979).

3. The Faith and Other Man ((1972).

4. Islam in Modern History, Book I (1957).

5. Islam in Modern History, Book II (1959).

6. The Meaning and End of Religion, foreword by John Hick (1978).

7. The Meaning and End of Religion, A New Approach to the Religion.

8. Modern Islam in India: A Social Analyses (1946).

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 3. The Works of Wilfred Cantwell Smith are
15 titles:
• 9. Modernization of a Traditional Society.

• 10. The Muslim League 1942-45 (1945).

• 11. On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies (1981).

• 12. Religious Diversity: Essays/ Edited by W.G. Oxtoby (1976).

• 13. Towards a World Theology: Faith and the Comparative History (1981).

• 14. What is Scripture?: A Comparative Approach (1993).

• 15. The World‫ص‬s Religious Traditions: Current Perspectives (1984)

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 4. The Works of Bernard Lewis on Islam are
30 titles:
• 1.The Arab in History, London, Hutchinson University Library, 1960. (Reprinted in 1950 and 1993).

• 2. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, Weidenfold&Nicolson, 1967.

• 3. The Cambridge History of Islam, edited by P.M. Holt, Ann K.S. Lambton (1970).

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• 4. Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: the Functioning of a Plural Society (1982).

• 5. Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, in the Age of Discovery (1995).

• 6. The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961). [Reprinted in 1962 and 1968].

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 4. The Works of Bernard Lewis on Islam are
30 titles:
• History: Remembered, Recovered and Invented (1975).

• 8. Islam and Liberal Democracy.

• 9. Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture (1976).

• 10. Islam and the West (1993).

• 11. Islam, from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (1974).

• 12. Islam in History: Ideas and Events in Middle East.

• 13. The Islamic World from Classical to Modern Times: Essays in Honor of B. Lewis (1989).

• 14. Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (1963).

• 15. Istanbul wal hazarat al-Imbaraturiyah al-Uthmaniyah (1973).

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 4. The Works of Bernard Lewis on Islam are
30 titles:
• 16. The Jews and Islam (1984).

• 17. The Middle East and the West (1964).

• 18. The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982).

• 19. Muslims in Europe / Edited by Lewis and Dominique Schnapper (1994).

• 20. The Origins of Ismailism: A Study of the Historical Background of the Fatimid (1975).

• 21. The Political Language of Islam (1988).

• 22. Population and Revenue in the Town of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century (1978).

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 4. The Works of Bernard Lewis on Islam are
30 titles:
• 23. Race in Color in Islam (1971). [Reprinted in 1990].

• 24. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: A Historical Enquiry (1990).

• 25. The Roots of Muslim Rage.

• 26. Semites and anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice (1986).

• 27. The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (1994).

• 28. Studies in Classical and Ottoman Islam, Seventh-Sixteenth Centuries (1976).

• 29.The World of Islam: Faith, People and Culture (1976).

• 30. The Middle East: 2000 years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day

• (1996)

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 5. The Works of Annemarie Schimmel are 29
titles:
1. Anvari‫ص‬s Divan, A Pocket Book for Akbar: A Divan of Auhaduddin Anvari (1983).

• 2. As through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam (1982).

• 3. Celebrating Muhammad: Images of the Prophet in Popular Muslim Poetry (1995).

• 4. Classical Urdu Literature from Beginning to Iqbal (1975).

• 5. A Dance of Sparks: Imagery of fire in Ghalib‫ص‬s Poetry (1979).

• 6. Deciphering the signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam (1994).

• 7. Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (German Selection).

• 8. Gabriel‫ص‬s Wing: A Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal.

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 5. The Works of Annemarie Schimmel are 29
titles:
• 9. Islam (1992).

• 10. Islam in India and Pakistan (1982).

• 11. Islam in the Indian Subcontinent (1980).

• 12. Islamic Caligraphy (1970).

• 13. Islamic Literature of India (1973).

• 14. Lahore: the City Within / Samina Quraeshi, with an essays by A. Schimmel (1988).

• 15. Liebe zu dem Einen: Texte aus der mystischen Tradition des indischen Islam (1986).

• 16. [Maqamat al-Hariri./German]. Die Verwandlungen des Abu Seid von serug: vier und.

• 17. Marchen aus Pakistan/aus dem Sindhi ubersetzt und herausgegeben von Annemarie1980).

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 5. The Works of Annemarie Schimmel are 29
titles:
• 18. Das Mysterium der Zahl: Zahllensymbolik im Kulturverbleich/ Franch carl Endres (1984).

• 19. The Mystery of Number (1993).

• 20. Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1975).

• 21. Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteenth Century Muslim (1976).

• 22. Poems/ English Selection (1993).

• 23. Sindhi Literature (1974).

• 24. Stern und Blume: die Bilderwelt der persischen Poesie (1984).

• 25. Stern und Blume. /English version (1992).

• 26. The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi (1980).

• 27. Und Muhammad ist sein Prophet: die Verehrung der Propheten in der islamischen (1981).

• 28. Und Muhammad ist sein Prophet./English (1985).

• 29. We Believe in One God: The Experience of God in Christianiti and Islam (1979).

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