By Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi In this article, Shaykh Akram Nadwi discusses the shortcomings – while also recognizing the value – of an “outsider’s” perspective on Islam, which in this case refers to Orientalists. One of the shortcomings of such perspectives is the disregard for the “insider’s” perspective which Orientalists consider unworthy and spoiled due to faith-bias. With such an approach, Orientalists categorically devalue the scholarly reasoning, critical thinking, and analysis of an insider which offers essential and valuable elements and connections that are beyond the scope of an outsider. – Ilmgate Modern Western critical inquiry into texts carrying religious…