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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Contemporary Man and the Social Problem Author's Foreword Three years ago, we attempted a humble under­taking: studying the deepest bases on which each of Marxism and Islam stands, and the book Our Philosophy فلسفتنا interpreted our attempt. That was a starting ­point for a successive strain of thought trying to study Islam from base to top .

So was Our Philosophy , then, published to be succeeded, after about two years, by Our Economy اقتصادنا ; and the two intellectual brothers (meaning books) are still waiting for other brothers to join, so that the whole intellectual series, which we aspire to present to Muslims, may be completed.

From the very beginning, we noticed that ­in spite of the unmatchable welcome with which the series was met, so much so that the copies of Our Philosophy were sold out within only few weeks—there is a considerable paradox between the high Muslim intellect and the general intellectual atmosphere in which we nowadays live. It is even very difficult, for many, to live upto this high standard of Muslim intellect without exerting a great deal of hard effort.

It was inevitable, then, to initiate successive series of books through which the reader ascends higher steps of Muslim intellectualism that may en­able him to appreciate its supreme standard.

Thus emerged the idea of "The Islamic School": an attempt to use a scholastic procedure in intro­ducing the Muslim intellect through successive series parallel to the main series; (i.e., Our Philosophy and Our Economy ), sharing its burden of carrying the Muslim intellectual message and agreeing with it in mutual and main purpose, although it differs in degree and level.

As we were contemplating on issuing "The Islamic School", we defined the characteristics of the Muslim intellect composing the general outlook and intellectual taste of the presumed School.

These characteristics may be summed up thus: The direct aim behind establishing "The Islamic School" is to supply conviction, more than innovation; therefore, it derives its intellectual topics from Our Philosophy , Our Econ­omy and their intellectual brothers, displaying them all within a specific scholastic framework, without confining itself to ideas presented for the first time. "The Islamic School" does not always restrict itself to proving the form of any particular idea.