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1 Introduction 2 What and how can we learn from the Quran? A critical rationalist perspective 3 A critical rationalist approach to religion 4 A critical assessment of the programmes of producing ‘Islamic Science’ and ‘Islamisation of Science/Knowledge’ 5 Faqih as engineer: a critical assessment of Fiqh’s epistemological status 6 A critical assessment of the method of interpretation of the Quran by the Quran, in the light of Allameh Tabatabaei’s Tafsir al-Mizan 7 The disenchantment of reason: an anti-rational trend in modern Shi‘i thought – the Tafkikis 8 Islamic philosophy: past, present and future 9 Doctrinal certainty: a major contributory factor to ‘Secular’ and ‘Religious’ violence in the political sphere 10 Islam, Christianity and Judaism: can they ever live peacefully together? 11 The shape of the coming global civil society: suggestions for a possible Islamic perspective