@article{2017,title={AN ANALYSIS OF PHILOSOPHIC ISLAM AND MODERN THOUGHT: A STUDY OF MUHAMMAD ALEXANDER RUSSELL WEBB},abstractNode={The story of Alexander Russell Webb, an early American convert to Islam, is only beginning to come to the attention of American Muslims. The first known white American convert to Islam was Web, a middle class Protestant who as inspired to turn to Islam through his reading and studying of the religion. Webb was endlessly committed to Islam and to preaching the message of Islam in America, but he always considered himself a ‘plain American citizen’. He did not see his religion or his acceptance of Islam as extraordinary; he believed that he was able to accept Islam earlier than his fellow countrymen simply because he had the benefit of understanding it sooner. He never saw himself at odds with the American people or culture, and his contemporaries took a keen and kindly interest in Webb and his work. This article focuses on a significant subject which is “Philosophic Islam,” Alexander Russell Webb’s best-attended Indian lecture, was delivered in Hyderabad on November 25, 1892. Webb used the term “philosophy” generically here and elsewhere for the wisdom implicit in a religion’s inner teaching, and not in reference to classical philosophy. Philosophic Islam, for Webb, referred to certain aspects of the Islamic scriptural teaching, especially its insistence that nature bears witness to God’s perfection.},author={Celal EMANET},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}