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Toward Global Cultural Renewal

Modernity and the Episteme of Transcendence (Occasional Paper)

By: Mona Abul Fadl

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Toward Global Cultural Renewal

Modernity and the Episteme of Transcendence (Occasional Paper)

By: Mona Abul Fadl

Today’s quest for Islamization is here put into historical and ideational perspective. It traces the movement to a newfound awareness among Muslims, cognizant of the immense worth and potential of their heritage, yet clamoring to emerge from their actual debilitation, whether enforced or self-inflicted. The author considers and evaluates various contemporary approaches to truth and compares them to the Islamic “mode of knowing,” discovering it to be a superior and beneficent foil to the existing paradigms and epistemes of modern culture. This book offers a blueprint for a new kind of scholarship, one that invokes the “vocational ideal” and has the power and the vision to absorb intelligently cultural diversity and transmute it into an overarching and transcendent, but realistic and humane, critique. The credentials of Islam to buttress and enlighten such an endeavor are presented with clarity and conviction. And while the pervasive and protean malaise of contemporary civilization is attributed to the sense of vacuity and absence of higher purpose brought about by the renunciation of God, that of the Muslim Ummah is seen to be rooted in intellectual lethargy. However, and despite the colossal challenges which face the quest for renewal and reintegration, challenges that are unflinchingly tackled and delineated in this paper, the final view is one of hope and affirmation in both human recoverability and the latent power of Islam to lead man out of the present morass.

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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

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1565647874

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Agency, Rationality, and Morality

A Qur’anic View of Man

By: Mona Abul-Fadl

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Agency, Rationality, and Morality

A Qur’anic View of Man

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Modernity or modernism as a system of thought purporting to be enlightened and universal, has brought with it a crisis of values and a secular perspective that has undermined its own foundations and is provoking a universalized state of existential angst or anomie and moral anarchy. This treatise provides a reading of the Qur’anic view of man as insan against a background of the preoccupations of modernity. The author critiques the rapid devolution of society divorced from spiritual tradition in the modern context. The emphasis is on rationality, freedom, and morality and the goal is the reintegration of man and the recovery of community through a reconciliation of self and the rediscovery of the essential meaning of divine guidance in so far as it relates to human life in this world. Taking the Qur’an as a divine discourse of many tiers and depths, the work singles out aspects of the discourse on creation and takes it as a pivot for developing a view of moral man and moral community, with the focus remaining on the former. The main message is one of relevance, urgency, and opportunity. The urgency and the opportunity lie with man, and the relevance shines through the light of the eternal message and comes from God.

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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

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1642056987

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Where East Meets West

Appropriating the Islamic Encounter for A Spiritual-Cultural Revival

By: Mona Abul-Fadl

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Where East Meets West

Appropriating the Islamic Encounter for A Spiritual-Cultural Revival

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The fate of civilization lies in the balance of culture, not power. This penetrating work argues that the terms of the culture of our times will determine the future of politics and societies. Islam continues to be, as much as it was in the past, at the hub and crossroads of contemporary civilization. The difference from a historical perspective, lies in the West’s control of the political setting, the primary factor in qualifying the terms of today’s civilization, and in setting its pace and direction accordingly. The modern West takes pride in its rational liberalism, yet for all its reverent skepticism it is not at all sure how it can handle its growing human problems. As such it makes sense to recall a timeless exhortation of natural wisdom, confirmed in divine revelation, handed down over the generations and understandable to all, in both East and West. It needs to be taken seriously on the agenda of any future encounter between East and West which presumes to address the future ecology of a moral global economy. When the individual has become a measure unto himself, the community dissolves: or at least, its matrix is severely undermined. In the meantime, there is nothing that can secure the individual against his own excesses. In forgetting their Creator, their origin, and their destiny, God has made them oblivious of themselves.

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1565647963

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Islam and the Middle East

The Aesthetics of a Political Inquiry

By: Mona Abdul-Fadl

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Islam and the Middle East

The Aesthetics of a Political Inquiry

By: Mona Abdul-Fadl

Orientalism has traditionally dominated discourse on the Middle East and thus obscured the human realities of the region. This monograph addresses the inadequacy and validity of existing theoretical perspectives on the Middle East. The critique presented offers Islam as a unifying constant rather than a sporadic phenomenon correlated to the flux of social, political and economic conditions and argues that Islam should be conceptually incorporated into any analysis of the region. The book defines the essence of Islamic civilization and highlights aspects of the colonial encounter as a background for understanding contemporary dynamics. Against a subtle leitmotiv of contrasting imagery, it profiles the Islamic view of the state, the role of the faith as well as that of the community. Useful distinctions are made between the Islamic and Western approaches to the area which should prove illuminating to both the area specialist and the lay reader.

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Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Shifting Worlds

By: Mona Abaza

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Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Shifting Worlds

By: Mona Abaza

This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge debate' and local empirical variations.

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Toward Global Cultural Renewal

Modernity and the Episteme of Transcendence (Occasional Paper)

By: Mona Abul Fadl

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Agency, Rationality, and Morality

A Qur’anic View of Man

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Islam and the Middle East

The Aesthetics of a Political Inquiry

By: Mona Abdul-Fadl

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The Aesthetics of a Political Inquiry

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Where East Meets West

Appropriating the Islamic Encounter for A Spiritual-Cultural Revival

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Appropriating the Islamic Encounter for A Spiritual-Cultural Revival

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Toward Global Cultural Renewal

Toward Global Cultural Renewal

Agency, Rationality, and Morality

Agency, Rationality, and Morality

Where East Meets West

Where East Meets West

Islam and the Middle East

Islam and the Middle East

Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Toward Global Cultural Renewal

Toward Global Cultural Renewal

Agency, Rationality, and Morality

Agency, Rationality, and Morality

Islam and the Middle East

Islam and the Middle East

Where East Meets West

Where East Meets West

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