Introduction -- I. History of a concept -- II. The lessons of history -- Part One. At the shores of transcendence: between God and man -- I. The Qur'an and the Sunna -- II. Ijtihad: between the absoluteness of sources and the relativity of history -- III. God, creation and men -- Part Two. The horizons of Islam: between man and the community -- I. Social principles -- II. Political orientations -- III. Economic directives -- Part THree. Values and finalities: the cultural dimension of civilisation face to face -- I. Prometheus and Abraham -- II. The way of the source -- III. Towards a war of civilisations? -- Conclusion. A triple liberation -- Appendix I. The heart present in life in order to live at the heart of the Presence -- Appendix II. The great current problems of Islam and Muslims -- Appendix III. The Western view on Islam is forged by a long history -- Appendix IV. The question of woman in the mirror of Revelation.
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