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Islamic English
Ismail Raji Faruqi, a renowned Molsem scholar, in Toward Islamic English, defines Islamic English as: the English Language modified to enable it to carry Islamic proper nouns and meanings without distortion, and, thus to serve the linguistic needes of Muslim user of the English language, (1986: 7)
Muhibbin Syah, the author of this book, does not user the term Islamic English the way Faruqi does. Instead, he uses Islamic English parallel with Economic English, English for Banking, or English for Sciene and Technology. Apparently the aouthor believes familiarity with topics disccused in the reading passages is a good start in developing proficiency in English especially in reading comprehension and grammatical competence. As evidence, throughout the book even grammatical and vocabulary exercises are in the context of Islam related issues although some of them seem to be too philoshophical for undergraduate students. The selected passages are more than enough to introduce Islam in general. In the final analys
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