Variant Readings of the Qur'an: a critical study of their historical and linguistic origins. By Ahmad cAlī al-Imām. Pp. 191. Herndon, Virginia: The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1998.

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
MUSTAFA SHAH
Keyword(s):  
Critical Study ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Islamic Thought

scholarly journals THE RECOGNITION OF EXISTENCE AND BIBLICAL TRUTH IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE QUR'AN (Critical Study of the Development of Liberal Islamic Thought in Indonesia)

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-430
Author(s):  
Asep Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Is Research ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
Existing Data

This article seeks to highlight and provide answers to the controversial opinions that have recently been frequently campaigned by some liberal Muslim figures that the Qur'an recognizes the existence and truth of previous scriptures such as the Bible. They use several verses in the Qur'an, 5:44, 46-47 and 66, to justify the above opinions supported by partial interpretation experts under their understanding and purpose. In this study, the author used the library research method, which is research-based on library studies. The approach used is descriptive-analytical, which describes existing data sources, then analyzed and interpreted using available data sources. The opinion of liberal Islamic thinkers that it is enough for the Jews to use the Torah in carrying out religious law, and the Christians that they simply follow the rules in the Bible, this is because their methodology in understanding the verse is wrong. They did not explain at all the abuses committed by Jews and Christians. Including their defiance of Allah's command and about the guidance of the coming of the Prophet Muhammad with his perfect and universal sharia, which they are obliged to follow and obey, which is the information contained in their holy book. In understanding the verses of the Qur'an, they do not use methodological steps that can be accounted for in the discipline of interpretation. Contextual schools are emphasized for several texts that are alleged to be anti-religious pluralism. While on the other hand, literal schools are applied to verses that support the notion of religious pluralism.   Artikel ini berupaya untuk mengetengahkan dan memberikan jawaban atas pendapat kontroversial yang belakangan ini sering dikampanyekan oleh beberapa tokoh muslim liberal bahwa al-Qur’an mengakui eksistensi dan kebenaran kitab suci sebelumnya seperti Bibel. Mereka menggunakan beberapa ayat dalam QS. Al-Ma’idah [5]: 44, 46-47, dan ayat ke-66 untuk menjustifikasi pendapat di atas didukung dengan menukil pendapat dari para ahli tafsir secara parsial sesuai dengan paham dan tujuan mereka. Pada penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan metode library research, yakni penelitian yang didasarkan pada studi pustaka. Adapun pendekatan yang digunakan adalah deskriptif-analitis, yaitu mendeskripsikan sumber data yang ada, kemudian dianalisis dan diinterpretasikan dengan menggunakan sumber data yang tersedia. Pendapat para pemikir Islam liberal bahwa kaum Yahudi cukup berhukum dengan Taurat begitu pula kaum Nasrani, yang katanya cukup berhukum dengan Injil atau Bibel, dikarenakan mereka cacat secara metodologis dalam memahami ayat tersebut. Mereka sama sekali tidak menerangkan tentang penyelewengan yang dilakukan orang-orang Yahudi dan Nasrani. Termasuk tentang pembangkangan mereka terhadap perintah Allah dan tentang petunjuk akan datangnya Nabi Muhammad saw. dengan syariatnya yang sempurna dan universal yang wajib diikuti dan ditaati oleh mereka, yang mana informasi tersebut terdapat di dalam kitab mereka. Dalam memahami ayat-ayat al-Quran, mereka tidak menggunakan ukuran metodologis yang dapat dipertanggungjawabkan secara disiplin ilmu tafsir. Mazhab kontekstual ditekankan untuk sejumlah teks yang diduga anti kemajemukan beragama. Sementara di sisi lain, mazhab literal diterapkan untuk ayat-ayat yang mendukung paham pluralism agama.

scholarly journals Islamic Reform Movements after the Arab Spring

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-172
Author(s):  
Jay Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Islamic Reform ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Special Lecture ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Algerian Civil War ◽  
Annual Summer

On June 24-July 3, 2013, the International Institute of Islamic Thought held its annual Summer Institute for Scholars. Given the number of presentations, only a few of them will be mentioned here. In his welcoming remarks, Abdul Aziz Sachedina (George Mason University) spoke eloquently about how change has to come from within, how politics still dominates values, and how the Qur’an and Sunnah are being read not for inspiration, but for putting down opposition and dissenters. The Arab Spring represents a challenge to undertake such an internal reform. Unfortunately, he said, cyberspace contains no serious conversation in this regard, just hostility and animosity, which only damages Muslims. He called for leaders to “moralize” the entire issue in order to achieve co-existence, mainly between Shi‘is and Sunnis, and wondered if the reformers could deal with this and other issues. John Voll (Georgetown University), who delivered the keynote address, “Pop-politics and Elections: Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring,” raised the question as to whether the Arab Spring makes any difference, given that reform movements have been going on in the Muslim world since 1880. Are we, he asked, “looking at something moving forward/different, or just rehashing the same old arguments?” He opined that a new vocabulary is needed and that people have to move beyond “interfaith,” “tolerance,” and interreligious dialogue and speak to each other about “shared interests.” He then discussed earlier Muslim reform movements and how their goals have changed over the years. Yahya Michot (Hartford University) presented a special lecture entitled “Taymiyyan Thoughts for a Temperate Arab Summer.” He pointed out how different groups (e.g., those groups responsible for assassinating Sadat, the Algerian civil war, and 9/11) took Ibn Taymiyyah’s anti-Mongol fatwas out of context to justify their actions. Thus they ignored the underlying issues: The supposedly “Muslim” Mongols were still massacring Muslims; ...

scholarly journals Observing the Observer

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
David H. Warren
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Interested Reader ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Muslim Minority

This publication, a collection of ten essays incorporating both quantitative andqualitative studies, has emerged as part of a lengthy research project conductedby the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and the Center for Islamand Public Policy (CIPP) beginning in 2004 and concluding in 2007. Naturally,given the state of relations between the United States and those countries perceivedas comprising the “Muslim World,” as well as regular controversies andscandals relating to the American Muslim minority and those who purport toobserve, study, and teach others about them and their religion, such a study isparticularly welcome. The studies included are aimed at both students and specialists,not only in the field of “Islamic studies” itself, but also more broadlywith regard to such related academic fields as theology and anthropology. Anotheraudience is the more general interested reader who might wish to learnwhat may (or may not) have changed in that field attacked so successfully inEdward Said’s great polemic, that its title Orientalism ultimately entered Islamicstudies as a truly condemnatory and pejorative slogan ...

scholarly journals Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Islamic Studies in Theological Seminaries

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-162
Author(s):  
Fatima Siwaju
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Care ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Care Coordinator ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Theological Schools ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Muslim Student ◽  
Professional Degrees

On Saturday, November 21, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., a panel coorganized by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) entitled “Opportunitiesand Challenges of Teaching Islamic Studies in TheologicalSeminaries,” was held during the Annual Meeting of the American Academyof Religion (AAR) at the Marriott Hotel in Atlanta, GA. The panel was presidedover by Reverend Dr. Serene Jones (president of Union Theological Seminaryand AAR president-elect), and included contributions from Nazila Isgandarova(Emmanuel College), Munir Jiwa (Graduate Theological Union), JerushaLamptey (Union Theological Seminary), Nevin Reda (Emmanuel College),Feryal Salem (Hartford Seminary), and Ermin Sinanović (IIIT). Amir Hussain(Loyola Marymount University) served as respondent.The purpose of the roundtable was to address the growing trend amongChristian seminaries in North America of offering courses and, in some cases,professional degrees in the study of Islam, which has often involved hiringMuslim academics. The panelists endeavored to explore the opportunitiesand challenges posed by this new context, as well as the possible future directionof theological schools in addition to the future trajectory of Islamicstudies at them.Nazila Isgandarova, a spiritual care coordinator for the Center for Addictionand Mental Health in Canada and a graduate student at Emmanuel College,spoke of her personal experience as a Muslim student in a theological school.She noted that one of the unique advantages of studying Islam in a Christianenvironment is that it provides a space for the exchange of ideas. Isgandarovaidentified clinical pastoral education (CPE) as one of the major advantages ofstudying at a seminary. She emphasized that Islamic spiritual care educationshould be grounded not only in the Islamic tradition, but also in the conceptualand methodological frameworks provided by CPE. While she acknowledged ...

scholarly journals The International Institute of Islamic Thought Intellectual Panels

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Saulat Pervez
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
North America ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
International Institute ◽  
The Core ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Distinguished Scholar ◽  
Diverse Audience ◽  
The U.S

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held a series of panels atthe 41st annual convention of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) inBaltimore, MD, on Sunday, May 29, 2016.The first panel, “Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah as a Philosophy of Islamic Law,”featured Jasser Auda (Al-Shatibi Chair of Maqasid Studies, the InternationalPeace College, South Africa) and Ebrahim Rasool (Distinguished Scholar inResidence at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School for ForeignService and former ambassador of South Africa to the U.S.), with ErminSinanović (director, Research and Academic Programs, IIIT) as moderator.Sinanović began by introducing IIIT to the diverse audience. He explainedthat the institute is devoted to the revival of Islamic traditions and the reformof Muslim societies. In addition to affirming that our sources and principlesare unchangeable, he positioned IIIT as the institution dedicated to making our intellectual legacy the core of the solution to our current malaise, for it is the“answer to the crisis of the ummah,” a crisis that is largely intellectual in nature:our inability to translate our eternal message as per our time and space ...

scholarly journals IIIT Panels at the 2016 ISNA Convention

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-165
Author(s):  
Hadeel Elaradi
Keyword(s):  
Annual Convention ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Islamic Thought

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held a series of panels atISNA’s 41st annual convention in Chicago, IL, on September 3-4, 2016.

scholarly journals Islamic Thought in the South Asian Subcontinent

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Zafar I. Ansari
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

The International Institute of Islamic Thought-Islamabad, the IslamicResearch Institute, and the International Islamic University, Islamabad,are conducting ongoing seminars on the history of Islamic thought ineighteenth-century South Asia. What follows is a report of some activitiesand decisions taken to date.Recent studies of Islamic thought have generally attributed the rise ofMuslim reform and revival movements, as well as the intellectual activitiesundertaken during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to theimpact of Europe and the influence of its academic, social, political, andtechnological advancement. This raises the following question: If theMuslim world had not come into contact with Europe, would it haveremained a totally unchanged and unchanging society? In order to answerthis question, it is essential to:1. Study and examine how Muslim thinkers analyzed their societyin the precolonial period2. Explore whether there was any dissatisfaction with the statusquo among Muslims;3. Detemine whether there were any trends of reform, revival,ijtihad or whether there was any significant interest in philosophyand rational sciences. Was there any interest in reinterpretingIslamic teachings in order to meet the challenges ofmodernity in general and of the western intellectual experiencein particular;4. Study whether the foundations of the political movements, religiousorganizations, and sects that arose in the subcontinent (i.e.,Ahl-i Hadith, Deobandi, and Barelawi) were laid on the emergentattitudes of opposition and resistance to British rule or whethertheir origins can be traced in the pre-British period; and5. Investigate principles and concepts (i.e., bid’ah, taqlid, ijtihad,dar al harb, jihad, and hijrah) used by Muslim thinkers for totalacceptance, rejection, or adaptation of political, social, and religiousideas and practices and of modern science and technology.How were these developed, refiied, restated, or reconsh-ucted? ...

scholarly journals Summary of the Proceedings of the Fourth International Economics Seminar

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-686
Author(s):  
Ehsan Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Islamic Thought

The theme of the Fourth International Islamic Economics Seminarwas "Economic Growth and Human Resource Development in an IslamicPerspective." It was a joint undertaking of the Association of Muslim SocialScientists (AMSS) and the International Institute of Islamic Thought(IIIT). The program was divided into five sessions: a) Human ResourceDevelopment in an Islamic Perspective; b) Human Resource Developmentin a Comparative Perspective; c) Issues in Human Resource Development:Case Studies from Selected Muslim Countries; d) Human Resources, EconomicDevelopment, and Government Policies in Muslim Countries; ande) Business Sector and Human Resource Development. This latter sessionalso dealt with the role of financial institutions in human developmentfrom an Islamic perspective. Welcoming and opening remarks were madeby Sultan Ahmad of the World Bank and Sayyid Syeed of the AMSS ...

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