The Islamic civilization epitomizes both the treasure and the shelter. It is the treasure, given its copious contribution, over ages, in the promotion of science, literature, crafts, and arts, but it is also the shelter and the safe haven securing protection of the Nation s identity and values, and ensuring proper impetus for renovation and creativity, safeguarding, all the while, the Islamic entity and preserving it against all forms of alienation and deviation. Indeed, research on the Islamic civilization is boundless. This civilization is an open- end subject that can never be exhausted by study

These two domains are generally known to conflict each other. However, the author of this book claims that these two share common ground in terms of pursuit of truth. Since when we had achieved an ability to think, we has been asked those questions: "where we came from?", "how the universe began?" These are the questions aboutthe origin of man, the universe, and the life. Religion and science are commonly the legacy of our effort to find the answer to these fundamental inquiries. The author attempts to develop a contextual dialogue between science and religion in the context of Korea, Here, the theological context of Korea, which differs from the Western, reflects both the religio-cultural context of religious pluralism as well as the socio-political context experienced colonialism and dictatorship. The readers looking for an ultimate truth may enjoy a mosaic woven through the contextual dialogue between modern science and the East Asian religious tradition.

This book is a beautiful exposition of the confidental places of Sri Krsna

The eighteen chapters of this book are blessed with the purport of the entire Vedas through which Krsna reveals the parama-purusartha, the supreme objective, prema-bhakti