Machine generated contents note: I.Contentious Issues Debated in Islamic Circles Today -- One.Islam in the Present-Day Islamic World -- An Overview -- Two.Jihad -- Its Spiritual Significance -- Three.Islamic Work Ethics -- Four.The Male and the Female in the Islamic Perspective -- Remembering Certain Basic Principles -- Five.Traditional Twelve-Imam Shi'ism and the Reality of Shi'ism Today -- II.Traditional Islam and Modernism -- Six.Islamic Spirituality -- Reflections on Conditions Today and Prospects for Tomorrow -- Seven."Development" in the Contemporary Islamic World -- III.Tensions Between Tradition, Modernism, and "Fundamentalism" -- Education -- Eight.Islamic Education, Philosophy, and Science -- A Survey in Light of Present-Day Challenges -- Nine.Islamic Philosophers' Views on Education -- Philosophy and Science -- Ten.Teaching Philosophy in Light of the Islamic Educational Ethos -- Eleven.Traditional Islamic Science and Western Science -- Contents note continued: Common Heritage, Diverse Destinies -- Art and Architecture -- Twelve.Islamic Art and Its Spiritual Significance in the Contemporary World -- Thirteen.The Architectural Transformation of the Urban Environment in the Islamic World -- Fourteen.The Principles of Islamic Architecture and Urban Design, and Contemporary Urban Problems -- IV.Postscript -- Fifteen.The Islamic World -- Present Tendencies and Future Trends -- Appendices -- Appendix I The Traditional Texts Used in the Persian Madrasahs and the Question of the Revival of Traditional Islamic Education -- Appendix II Philosophy in the Present-Day Islamic World -- Appendix III Western Interpreters of the Islamic Tradition Academic Scholars -- A.In Commemoration of Louis Massignon: Catholic Scholar, Islamicist, and Mystic -- B.Henry Corbin: The Life and Works of the Occidental Exile in Quest of the Orient of Light -- Appendix IV Islam and Some of the Major Western Traditionalists -- Contents note continued: A.Rene Guenon and His Influence in the Islamic World -- B.Frithjof Schuon and the Islamic Tradition -- C.With Titus Burckhardt at the Tomb of Muhyi al-Din ibn `Arabi -- D.Martin Lings and His Islamic Legacy.