Islam between East and West

Abstract

The publication of the Bengali translation of Alija Ali lzetbegovec‟s (the former president of Bosnia, before and during the first Balkan war of the 90‟s) book „Islam between East and West‟ by Ifteker Iqbal titled „Pracya Pashchatya O Islam‟, is one of those events which has gone largely unnoticed by most people to whom Islam and the Islamic heritage in Bangladesh is a concern. The book is thematically divided into three parts, viz (1) on the relevance of religion (2) The metareligious phenomenon of Islam and (3) the Anglo-Saxon approximation of the Islamic middle path.