This book corrects the long-standing misconceptions of the masses about the religious beliefs of Islam, and challenges the core social perceptions and deviations from its religious guidelines. It offers the reader an opportunity to learn about the various social dimensions and Islamic views in the light of the Quran and Sunnah. The book will appeal to a diverse readership, and rarely uses terminology which is specific to a certain subject. Where such terms are used and inevitable, these are properly defined and explained in the given context.

Any student of sociology can tell you what a Socialist, Communist or Capitalist social structure is, but what is a Muslim Social Structure? This book answers this by looking at the Social Structure of Traditional Islam, which dominated the Muslim World for about one thousand years before the arrival of Western Domination destroyed it in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.This book is completely unique. Other Muslim thinkers, trying to solve the question of what a Muslim Social Structure should be, simply say it should be "just" or "fair", and when asked to explain what that means, come up with a copy of European ideas, usually of a Socialist variety. Dr. Muhammad Haroon provides a unique answer. The Social Structure of Traditional Islam was above all the structure required to keep the Ummah together, and that was a structure of Liberty, of a unique kind. The basic idea underlying this social structure was the supreme value of the Muslim World Community, the Ummah. This idea is the central concept of traditional Islam, and was the belief of the vast mass of Muslims since the beginning of Islam, and still is today.This book is the answer to the most important problem facing Humanity. The Path to Paradise is membership of the Ummah. This Social Structure is the one needed to make this Ummah as big as possible, to get the most people to Almighty God's Paradise.Dr. Muhammad Haroon holds a First Class Honours Degree and a PhD in History from Cambridge University.

Selected articles presented at a seminar on the social structure of Indian Muslims held at the Hamdard Convention Centre, New Delhi, 22-23 Oct. 1989, sponsored by the Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi, India.