Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
FAIN: FB-11109-72
Unaffiliated independent scholar
Sami G. Hajjar (Project Director: September 1972 to present)
To study and compare the intial impact of Islamic religion and philosophy on Mideastern civilization with the role that it plays in the modern scientific and empirical age. Particularly, its early endeavor to bring about an understanding between reason and revelation, and why it ceases to perform this function today.