Towards An Islamic Theory of International Relations: New Directions for Methodology and Thought

by AbdulHamid AbuSulayman, Publisher The International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, Virginia USA 1993

Abstract

The book under review is an outcome of Islamization of knowledge series sponsored by the International Institute of Islamic Though based in The United States of America at Herndon,  Virginia.   The   book   was   originally   submitted   to   the   University   of Pennsylvania as a dissertation in international relations. In his scholarly introduction Dr. Isma‘il Raji al Faruqi asserted, ―In fact, this dissertation has rendered a service far greater than winning a doctorate for its author: it has exposed truths of Islam which are relevant to one of the most important fields of study in the century – namely, world order‖. The book has been acclaimed in the Muslim world as the first print in 1987 was exhausted and a second revised edition was needed in 1993. The writer explaining the importance of second publication emphasized, ―A reexamination of the sections dealing with  the picture of contemporary relations  between  nations  and,  in  particular,  the policies adapted by the states in the Muslim world in response to those changes.