The book addresses one of the most pressing intellectual and cultural challenges facing contemporary faith communities: how to reconcile deeply held spiritual beliefs with the overwhelming scientific consensus on biological evolution. Rather than taking a combative or apologetic stance or resorting to misinformation or lack of information, this book seeks to foster a constructive dialogue rooted in shared inquiry, curiosity, humility, and historical perspective, combined with an inquiry into how non-empirical phenomena could be understood.
The central thesis is that the conflict between Islam and evolution is not intrinsic to either the religion or the science. Instead, it stems from modern epistemological misalignments and interpretive shifts that have distorted both traditional Islamic thought and the public understanding of evolutionary biology. Through nine accessible chapters, the book draws on philosophy, Islamic theology, mysticism, and contemporary science to argue for a synthesis rooted in intellectual honesty.
The book provides a simple answer to the entanglement, which is a concept understood among premodern societies that the ‘essence’ or the ‘fundamental constitution’ of the empirical world is what we know or can know. In contrast, there is no knowledge provided to the human mind about the fundamental constitution of the non-empirical phenomena. This book is for religious readers, especially young thinkers and scholars who are struggling to navigate questions of identity, science, and faith. It is also for general readers, educators, and interfaith audiences interested in science-religion dialogue, comparative theology, and the sociology of knowledge.