A Secular Age maliki The Basmala is recited in

The Basmala is recited in order to consecrate all permissible actions

to analyse the semantic structure of major concepts in the Quar'an

this is a captivating guide to navigating the wonders of the wild

as the source of nearly all modern philosophical errors

The modern world knows it faces a void of meaning—and in a strange recurrence of 
history

A Secular Age maliki The Basmala is recited inWhat does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that wein the West, at leastlargely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes meanof what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which