Islamic Thought: An Approach to Reform

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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), 1 Jan 2006 - 192 halaman

 For the first time, Muslims are faced with a worldwide positivism which is working to use knowledge, the sciences and their discoveries and achievements in a manner which severs the relationship between the Creator, the created universe and man, thereby disregarding the world of the unseen and driving a wedge between science and values.

Lacking even the most modest store of vital Islamic doctrine on the intellectual level, university students and researchers in the Islamic world are confronted with doctrines and philosophies which are presented to them together with a flimsy, miserable defense of Islam. There is not a single academic institution in the Islamic world in which Islamic thought is taught and in which the Islamic vision is given a deep-rooted foundation with the same force and persuasiveness with which Western ideas and the Western vision are taught to students in the West, in a coherent, comprehensive manner accompanied by seriousness and commitment on the part of all. The books argues that this approach is diametrically opposed to the Islamic perspective and that we must disengage human scientific achievement from positivistic philosophical premises and reemploy these sciences within a systematic epistemological framework based on divine revelation, conferring honor upon all forms of knowledge, as having been bestowed upon man by their Creator.

 

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Introduction
1
The Crisis of Contemporary Islamic Discourse Motive Forces Behind the Crisis and the Crisis Mentality
19
The Crisis Mentality and Crisis Proliferation
33
Resolving the Crisis Through the Reform of Islamic Thought and the Islamization of Knowledge
43
Major Features of the Reform of Islamic Thought and the Islamization of Knowledge
49
Discourse and its Audience
95
Hindrances and Impediments
123
CONCLUSION
129
APPENDIX
137
ENDNOTES
165
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Halaman ix - Allahu c alayhi wa Sallam: May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. This prayer is said by Muslims whenever the name of the Prophet Muhammad is mentioned, or whenever he is referred to as the Prophet of Allah.
Halaman viii - Roberts, who, throughout the various stages of the book's production, co-operated closely with the editorial group at the London Office. We would also like to thank the editorial and production team at the London Office and those who were directly or indirectly involved in the completion of this book including: Fouzia Butt, Shiraz Khan and Saddiq Ali.
Halaman vii - Of knowledge, we have none, save what You have taught us. (The Qur'an: 2:32) My grandson once asked me "how to resist the temptation of evils in the life of America when one has full right of freedom, opportunity and privacy".
Halaman xvii - And this have We willed you to be a community of the middle way, so that (with your lives) you might bear witness to the truth before all mankind, and that the Apostle might bear witness to it before you.

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 Dr. Taha Jabir Al-Alwani is a graduate of Al-Azhar University and an internationally known scholar and expert in the fields of Islamic legal theory, jurisprudence (fiqh), and usul al-fiqh. He is President of The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS), USA; President of The Fiqh Council of North America; Member of the OIC Islamic Fiqh Academy; and former President of The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), USA. He is also the author of numerous works including: “Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence”, “Towards a Fiqh for Minorities”; “The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam”; “Ijtihad”; and “The Qur’an and the Sunnah: The Time-Space Factor”. (2005).

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