Responses of Western scholars to contemporary atheism - presentation and critique (3 parts)

With the wave of new or contemporary atheism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Western scholars played a prominent role in confronting it, before its effects reached our Arab and Islamic world. This role and this precedence covered most aspects of intellectual, philosophical, and scientific debate, as well as theoretical and practical criticism, and included a large number of dialogues, meetings, and debates, which helped many of our libraries to benefit from it later and to this day. Despite that, most of these responses still lack shedding light on them and their original texts, let alone the need for sorting, criticism, commentary, correction, and clarifying what supports or opposes them due to their influence by the beliefs of their speakers ultimately. From here comes the importance of this thesis (which was submitted to obtain a PhD from the Islamic University) for a Western-born researcher who left a life of luxury to embrace Islam, and who employed his research and language skills in collecting this distinguished material, which we hope will serve as a reference for anyone interested in this field. Number of pages: 400 Publisher: Dala'il Center Author: Dr. Johannes Klomnek (Dr. Abdullah Al-Suwaidi)