FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION --- Dimitri Gutas -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE THE KNOWLEDGE BEFORE KNOWLEDGE -- 1. The Root '-l-m -- 2. The Evidence of Poetry -- CHAPTER TWO THE REVELATION OF KNOWLEDGE -- 1. A Word Count and its Meaning -- 2. The Motivating Force behind the Qur ânic Use of '-l-m -- 3. Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge -- 4. Jâhilîyah -- 5. Wisdom and Knowledge -- CHAPTER THREE THE PLURAL OF KNOWLEDGE -- CHAPTER FOUR DEFINITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE -- CHAPTER FIVE KNOWLEDGE IS ISLAM (Theology and Religious Science) -- 1. Books and Chapters "On Knowledge" -- 1. The Knowledge and Faith -- 3. God's Knowledge -- 4. Man's Knowledge of God -- 5. Shî 'ah Notions of Knowledge -- CHAPTER SIX KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT (Sûfism) -- CHAPTER SEVEN KNOWLEDGE IS THOUGHT (Philosophy) -- 1. Graeco-Arabic Translation Terminology -- 2. Logic, "The Science of Knowledge" -- 3. Epistemology as a Tool of Theology and Jurisprudence -- CHAPTER EIGHT KNOWLEDGE IS SOCIETY (Education) -- 1. 'Ilm-'Amal-Adab: Knowledge, Action, General Education -- 2. 'Ilm in Adab Anthologies -- 3. Monographs in Praise of Knowledge and the Educational Literature -- 4. Materials for an Appraisal of Knowledge as a Societal Force -- The Attitude Toward Doubt -- Limitations on Individual Knowledge -- Personal Failings of Scholars -- Knowledge as Life and as Food for the Soul -- Knowledge in its Relation to Money and Power -- CONCLUDING REMARK -- INDEX.