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ajiss-1103	Rufai, Saheed Ahmad	The Qur’anic Worldview: A Springboard for Cultural Reform By AbdulHamid AbuSulayman (London: IIIT, 2011. 179 pages.)	2013.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1550	42	37	His argument consists of three points: (1) an emphasis on the need to “identify the methodological and ideational relationship between contemporary Islamic social sciences and both the Islamic heritage and modern western social sciences on the level of sources, ideational content, and study and research methods” (p. 130); (2) the link between modern western social sciences and the Islamization of knowl- edge lies “at the heart of the Islamic social sciences and having to do with both content and method” (p. 132); and (3) a definition of the social sciences by claiming that “the function of jurisprudence and the law is, first and fore- most, formal in nature, while the function of the social sciences is primarily intellectual or ideational” (p. 133). The implication here is that students specialize in Islamic studies and, if they desire to pursue a secondary special- ization or minor, spend an additional year (for 30 or 40 credit hours) to receive a B.A. in Islamic studies and another one in any area of humanities or social 106 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 30:3 ajiss303-for hasan_ajiss 6/14/2013 3:38 AM Page 106 sciences.	cache/ajiss-1103.pdf	txt/ajiss-1103.txt