		About the Author
		Author's Dedication
		Table of Contents
		Contact Address
		Credits

About the Author: Robert D. Crane

Dr. Crane is founder and coordinator of the Center for Civilization Renewal. After earning a J.D. in comparative legal systems in 1959 from Harvard Law School and founding the Harvard International Law Journal as the first president of the Harvard International Law Society, he worked for a decade in Washington think-tanks. In 1962, he co-founded the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

From 1963 to 1968, he was principal foreign policy adviser to Richard M. Nixon. In 1969, Nixon appointed him Deputy Director of the National Security Council in the White House, and in 1981 President Reagan appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Crane has served as Director of the Legal Division of the American Muslim Council and is the founding President of the Muslim American Bar Association.

Dr. Crane is married to Diana Huntress, and they have five grown children. His hobbies include long- distance running and mountaineering. He has published 10 books and 50 professional articles on comparative legal systems, global strategy, and information management. His great-grandfather was one of the financial founders of Northwestern University.

Education

B.A., Northwestern University, Evanstion, IL, 1956, summa cum laude, GPA 4.0; majors in political science, economic planning, Sino-Soviet studies.
J.D., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 1959, specialty in comparative legal systems and international investment.
Honor Thesis: "The Accomomodation of Ethics in International Commercial Arbitration." published in the Arbitration Journal, Fall 1959.
University of Munich, Germany, 1948049, major in sociology of religion, 1955056, comparative legal systems.
District of Columbia Bar, admitted, 1960.
Languages: English, German, Russian, Spanish, French and Arabic.

Author's Dedication

The author would like to dedicate this book to:

Shaheed Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi who taught an entire generation of baby-boomer Muslims how to think and to a still younger generation of American Muslims, who seek not to revive the glory of a past civilization, but to build in America a global civiliz ation of justice for the future

Contact Address

For comments please contact:

	The Center for Civilizational Renewal
	P.O.Box 4236,
	Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196

Credits

Web Publishing by MIT Muslim Students' Association.

Internet Marketing Wasim Khan, NATION BUILDERS & CIVILIZATION MOVERS INC.

"I would like to thank my wife Diana Huntress for putting up with my obtemisim and
my commmitment to complete the american revolution, by renewing american civilization."
							 Dr. Rober Crane

SHAPING THE FUTURE:

CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE

Preface

Volume 1: THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE

	Chapter One		The Strategic Value of Vision
	Chapter Two		The Vision of World Order
	Chapter Three		The Vision of Communitarian Pluralism
	Chapter Four		The Clash of Civilizations: A Vision for a New Cold War
	Chapter Five		Peaceful Engagement: A Vision for Peace Through Justice
	Chapter Six		Political Action: Keeping It Principled	

(to be published soon)
Volume 2: THE SPIRITUAL CHALLENGE
	Chapter Seven		A Strategy for Leadership in the Twenty-First Century
	Chapter Eight		Developing a Traditionalist Movement in America	
	Chapter Nine		Guiding a Traditionalist Movement
	Chapter Ten		Spiritual Leadership:  A Model for Mankind
	Chapter Eleven		Interfaith Leadership
	Chapter Twelve		Transformation Through Normative Jurisprudence
	Chapter Thirteen	Tawhid Cybernetics: Moral Law for Cyber-Civilization	

Volume 3: THE ECONOMIC CHALLENGE

APPENDICES
 
	One			Defining Islamic Traditionalism: 
				First Principles in the Islamization of Thought                                        
                 		   by Shaheed Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi 
	Two			A Strategy for Spiritual and Moral Rearmament
				   by Shaikh Ahmad Kuftaro




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Education

SHAPING THE FUTURE:

CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE

Table of Contents

Preface

Volume 1: THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE

(to be published soon)

Volume 2: THE SPIRITUAL CHALLENGE

Volume 3: THE ECONOMIC CHALLENGE

APPENDICES

Last Modified: 05:08pm EST, November 06, 1995