scholarly journals Irfan Abdul Hameed Fattah’s Discourse on Religious Thought in Response to The Challenges of Modernity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adibah Abdul Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
The West ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

Abstract This paper will explore Irfan’s views on diversified philosophical trends which represent main qualitative characteristics of modernity. The author emphasizes the effort made by Irfan to answer what are the intellectual challenges of modernity posed by the West, and what are the major religious responses to modernity.  A qualitative methodology in which the textual analysis and comparative study was employed to analyse textual materials related to the writings of Irfan and other figures. Findings indicate that the discussion on religious thought and the challenges of modernity is still relevant to contemporary time. It exerted impacts on the West particularly in Jewish and Christian religions, as well as the Muslim world. It led Irfan to take an initiative to deliberate it in an objective manner.  Keyword: Irfan, Modernity, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Religious thought.

scholarly journals The Harmonization of Naqlī And ‘Aqlī Approaches In Affirming The Islamic Creed In Dāwūd Al-Faṭānī’s Ward Al-Zawāhir

2017 ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Hasbullah bin Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Textual Analysis

This paper offers an examination of the scholarship of Dāwūd al-Faṭānī in dealing with the revealed sources (naqlī) and qualified scholarship in the exercise of the intellect (‘aqlī) in affirming the Islamic creed. The author emphasizes the determination of Dāwūd al-Faṭānī on the need to refer to the authority of naqlī and ‘aqlī so as to guard against deviation and exceeding the proper limits of methodological practices towards theological goal of knowing God (ma‘rifat Allāh). A qualitative methodology in which the textual analysis and comparative study was employed to analyse textual materials related to Dāwūd al-Faṭānī especially his writing, the Ward al-Zawāhir.  Findings indicate that Dāwūd al-Faṭānī attempted to integrate the naqlī and ‘aqlī approaches, and harmonize such distinctions in dealing with theological approaches especially that of Salaf and Khalaf’s.  

scholarly journals جهود عرفان عبد الحميد في دراسة الأديان: النصرانية أنموذجا Contributions of ‘Irfān ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd in comparative study of religion: Christianity as a case study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
سيكو توري Sekou Toure ◽  
وان محمد عزام بن وان محمد أمين Wan Mohd Azam Mohd Amin ◽  
عوض الخلف (Awad Al-Khalaf)
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Comparative Religion ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Muslim Scholars

Abstract Muslim scholars have done great contribution to the field of Comparative Religion in Islamic heritage. In contemporary era numbers of Muslim experts appear in the field of studying religions, names such as Aḥmad Shalabī, Abū Zahrah, al-A‘ẓamī, al Fārūqī and ‘Irfān ‘Abd al- Ḥamīd Fattāḥ are among them. This paper aims at shading light to the efforts, methods and contributions of al-marḥūm Faṭṭāḥ’s in his work of studying Christianity and other religions. A qualitative methodology in which the critical textual analysis approach has been used in studying materials related to Faṭṭāḥ. Findings indicate that Faṭṭāḥ presented Christian faith in consistence with the historical development of Christianity..  

scholarly journals A Comparative Study Between Risale-i Nur And Tafsīr al-Azhar’s Methodology in Quranic Exegesis and Its Relation to the Daʿwah Strategy in Turkey and the Malay-Indonesian World (Kajian Perbandingan Mengenai Kaedah Pentafsiran Al-Qur'an di antara Risale-i Nur dan Tafsir al-Azhar serta Kaitannya dengan Strategi Da'wah di Turki dan Dunia Melayu)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-349
Author(s):  
Hafiz Asyraf Amir Yusdi ◽  
Siti Nursyakirah Yuslan ◽  
Mohd Noh Abdul Jalil ◽  
Ismail Bin Mamat
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Written Materials

This article discusses the contribution of two great scholars in the Muslim world, Bediʿuzzaman Saʿid Nursī (d.1960) and Haji ʿAbdul Malīk bin ʿAbdul Karīm ʿAmrullah (HAMKA) (d.1981). They contributed immensely to their communities in Turkey and Indonesia. Both scholars produced magnum opus on the meanings and interpretations of the Qur’ān. This article examines the contents of Saʿid Nursī’s Risale-i Nur and HAMKA’s Tafsīr al-Azhar respectively. Besides, this article also focusing on Quranic exegesis methodologies adopted by both scholars. The article employs textual analysis and comparative study on Risale-i Nur and Tafsīr al-Azhar, supported by other related written materials on the topic. This paper concludes that Saʿid Nursī and Hamka employ Quranic exegesis as a medium to make Islām understandable and practical in their locality. It is evident that certain methodologies of the Quranic exegesis they adopted in both Risale-i Nur and Tafsīr al-Azhar served as the daʿwah tools in an efforts to bring Islam closer to the local community. Keywords: Risale-i Nur, Tafsīr al-Azhar, Quranic exegesis, daʿwah, methodology. Abstrak Artikel ini membincangkan sumbangan dua ulama besar dalam dunia Islam, Bediʿuzzamān Saʿid Nursī (d.1960) dan Haji ʿAbdul Malīk bin ʿAbdul Karīm ʿAmrullah (Hamka) (d.1981). Sumbangan mereka terhadap masyarakat di Turki dan Indonesia tidak dapat disangkal lagi. Mereka berjaya menghasilkan mahakarya berkaitan tafsiran dan makna al-Qur’an. Artikel ini akan mengkaji kandungan Risale-i Nur yang ditulis oleh Saʿid Nursī dan Tafsīr al-Azhar oleh Hamka. Selain itu, artikel ini juga memberi tumpuan kepada kaedah penafsiran al-Qur’an yang digunakan oleh kedua-dua tokoh ini. Artikel ini menggunakan kaedah analisa teks dan kajian perbandingan terhadap Risale-i Nur dan Tafsīr al-Azhar, serta kajian terhadap bahan-bahan penulisan lain yang berkaitan dengan kajian ini. Kajian ini menyimpulkan bahawa Sa'id Nursī dan Hamka menggunakan penafsiran al-Quran sebagai wahana untuk menerangkan Islām secara mudah untuk difahami dan praktikal kepada masyarakat masing-masing. Ini jelas menunjukkan bahawa kaedah penafsiran al-Qur’an yang diguna pakai di dalam Risale-i Nur dan Tafsīr al-Azhar berfungsi sebagai alat da'wah untuk mendekatkan kefahaman masyarakat setempat terhadap Islam. Kata Kunci: Risale-i Nur, Tafsīr al-Azhar, Tafsir al-Qur’an, daʿwah, metodologi.

Religious Freedom in Islam

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Philpott
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The West ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Muslim Majority

Is Islam hospitable to religious freedom? The question is at the heart of a public controversy over Islam that has raged in the West over the past decade-and-a-half. Religious freedom is important because it promotes democracy and peace and reduces ills like civil war, terrorism, and violence. Religious freedom also is simply a matter of justice—not an exclusively Western principle but rather a universal human right rooted in human nature. The heart of the book confronts the question of Islam and religious freedom through an empirical examination of Muslim-majority countries. From a satellite view, looking at these countries in the aggregate, the book finds that the Muslim world is far less free than the rest of the world. Zooming in more closely on Muslim-majority countries, though, the picture looks more diverse. Some one-fourth of Muslim-majority countries are in fact religiously free. Among the unfree, 40% are repressive because they are governed by a hostile secularism imported from the West, and the other 60% are Islamist. The emergent picture is both honest and hopeful. Amplifying hope are two chapters that identify “seeds of freedom” in the Islamic tradition and that present the Catholic Church’s long road to religious freedom as a promising model for Islam. Another chapter looks at the Arab Uprisings of 2011, arguing that religious freedom explains much about both their broad failure and their isolated success. The book closes with lessons for expanding religious freedom in the Muslim world and the world at large.

Shaykh Muhammad ibn a 'Abd al-Wahhāb and Shāh Walī Allāh: A Preliminary Comparison of Some Aspects of their Lifes and Careers

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Preliminary Attempt ◽  
Preliminary Comparison ◽  
Carbon Copy

AbstractShaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb (1703–1791) and Shāh Walī Allāh (1703–1762) were, indeed, the two key Mujaddis in the entire eighteenth-century Muslim world. Many scholarly and amateurish works were produced in English, Arabic, Urdu and other languages on their substantial achievements, but I am not aware of any independent comparative study of their careers and thought. This paper is, however, just a preliminary attempt to construct such a comparison and contrast through studying some aspects of their colourful lives and intellectual legacies. The discourse contests, in particular, the neologism "Indian Wahhābism", which had been coined by some orientalists to designate the Indian Islamic reformist movement, because, to say the least, it implicitly, but without justification, condemned it as a carbon copy of Wahhābism, and its vanguard, Shāh Walī Allāh, as a replica of his contemporary Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb. The discourse suggests that the Shaykh and the Shāh founded and spearheaded distinct, but largely dissimilar, systems and schools of thought in the pre-modernist era that have had far-reaching impacts on subsequent Islamic reformist movements worldwide.

Islamic International Relations Towards a Theoretical Framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gubara Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World

The Western originators of the multi-disciplinary social sciences and their successors, including most major Western social intellectuals, excluded religion as an explanation for the world and its affairs. They held that religion had no role to play in modern society or in rational elucidations for the way world politics or/and relations work. Expectedly, they also focused most of their studies on the West, where religion’s effect was least apparent and argued that its influence in the non-West was a primitive residue that would vanish with its modernization, the Muslim world in particular. Paradoxically, modernity has caused a resurgence or a revival of religion, including Islam. As an alternative approach to this Western-centric stance and while focusing on Islam, the paper argues that religion is not a thing of the past and that Islam has its visions of international relations between Muslim and non-Muslim states or abodes: peace, war, truce or treaty, and preaching (da’wah).

The Strategies and Practices of Sheikh Azizur Rahman Nesarabadi in the Pursuit of Unity in Diversity and Harmony: The Global Viewpoint

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 520-538
Author(s):  
Fayzul Huq ◽  
Arshad Islam ◽  
Kazi Afifa Khatun
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Good Interest ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The World ◽  
Unity In Diversity

The Muslims of Bangladesh are separated into diverse religious, political, and social groups. Several scholars tried to unite Muslims. One of the most significant Islamic intellectuals of Bangladesh, Sheikh Azizur Rahman Nesarabadi, proposed a paradigm of religious harmony to unite the Bangladeshi people and global nations. According to him, religious harmony with the doctrine of Ittihad Ma’al al-Ikhtelaf (Unity in Diversity) is the only key answer to the current disunity at the national, international, and global levels. This study examines his concept and his role in the society and politics of Bangladesh by textual analysis of primary and secondary data. After analyzing religious harmony itself, we deliver a brief biography of Sheikh Azizur Rahman, presenting his contribution to both Sharia and Sufi education, and their effects on his vision. The study then emphasizes his thoughts on four steps of religious harmony and analyses in light of current social realities in Bangladesh and the Muslim world. This paper concludes that Sheikh Nesarabadi’s thought and theory on religious harmony depend upon three foundations: common good interest, moderation, mutual respect, and the Tawhidic model. These contain the structure for religious harmony of Muslim unity whose implementation by Muslims can achieve the command of Allah to empower the Ummah to continue a leading role in the world as a Khalifah of Allah SWT almighty.

scholarly journals ‘I realised then how “Parisian” Egypt was’: challenges and rewards of de-westernising travel journalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1151-1166
Author(s):  
Andrew Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The West ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Bypassing the dominant Western bias in journalism scholarship is a challenge; it raises the question of what might replace it. Similarly, to evade the Western post-imperialism orthodoxies recurrent in cultural studies scholarship into travel and tourism would require other perspectives. This study combines the two and attempts to circumvent the Western bias in scholarship on travel journalism, given that its constituent parts are – for different reasons – becoming de-centred from the West. Textual analysis of Singaporean newspaper articles in Mandarin and English shows that questions of privilege and power remain but need not be associated with narratives of post-imperialism. Instead, destinations are textually constructed to justify the writer’s decision to travel. The intention for this article is to suggest ways that dominant Western perspectives in media studies may be balanced by other viewpoints which still expose issues of power and privilege but offer a less hegemonic, more culturally neutral starting point

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