pt. 1. Quranic Islam and the secular mind -- Locating Islam in the modern world -- Human reason and divine revelation -- The moral challenge of secular humanism -- pt. 2. An Arabic Quran : assessing its authority -- The book sent down -- The book as 'the frustrater' -- The scope of the book -- The authority of the book -- pt. 3. A Quranic Lebenswelt in a secular age -- A sign is enough - for the wise -- Faith and the varieties of rejection -- Human nature and the Quran -- 'Greater is God!' -- pt. 4. Conclusions -- Preface to a philosophy of Islam.