"With an impressive combination of grand ambitions and punctilious insights, Jaan S. Islam identifies, confronts, and overcomes the reasons for our 21st-century crisis of certainty. Locating the causes at the very core of the Western tradition, and particularly its approach to the Good and the True (which is, of course, the nexus of action and thought, politics and philosophy), Islam radically critiques the intellectual inheritance of the Enlightenment as well as its ancient antecedents to expose its inherent contradictions. Yet Islam does not leave us abandoned, floating above the ocean's abyss surrounded by the wreckage of a broken tradition. In an analytical turn that takes full advantage of emerging decolonial perspectives, Islam guides us to a distant, subaltern shore: the Chinese and Islamic political and philosophical traditions, with their distinct approaches that circumvent the contradictions at the base of our crisis of certainty: approaches that Islam categorizes as 'knowledge-based cognition'" E. T. Dailey, University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam. "Throughout history, only a handful of writers dare bring out the truth.

Rarely such writers are recognized in their lifetime as being truth-tellers, and are almost never celebrated in a society controlled by an establishment that has invested in keeping the truth away from the general public that it controls. In this revolutionary work, Jaan Islam challenges the core definition of truth in western philosophy - something that has not been done for many centuries. As he compares Western with Eastern political philosophy, he gives us a criterion for discerning the Truth from falsehood. The book is a breathtaking read. At the same time, arguments and logic used are airtight, devoid of any logical loopholes. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the first book in modern times that reads like poetry while offering logic of an engineering design. One can only wish this line of work catches on and we have a paradigm shift in the way our scholars communicate with the general mass." Prof.

M. Enamul Hossain, Statoil Research Chair, Memorial University, St. John's, Canada. "The Information Age is synonymous with an overflow of "information." Information is necessary for traveling the path of knowledge, leading to the truth. Yet, here a horrific contradiction leaps out to grab one and all by.