Understanding the Sources of the Sino-Islamic Intellectual Tradition: A Review Essay on The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms, by Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick, and Tu Weiming, and Recent Chinese Literary Treasuries

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-559
Author(s):  
Kristian Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Tu Weiming

Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-189
Author(s):  
Raj Chetty
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Sylvia Wynter

This review essay engages with Aaron Kamugisha’s 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition by focusing on its methodological commitment to seeking Caribbean answers to Caribbean political and social problems. The author argues that Kamugisha powerfully offers something other than a methodology through which the circulation of Caribbean geographies, politics, epistemologies, and its people’s lived experiences moves outward to provide analytical and conceptual service for metropolitan centers, even if for ostensibly decolonial purposes. The essay demonstrates how by turning to two of the Caribbean’s major thinkers, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their far-less-studied Caribbean writings, Kamugisha takes seriously the centering of Caribbean thinkers in their own histories of political becoming. The essay ends with sustained focus on Kamugisha’s elaboration of two of Wynter’s conceptualizations: indigenization as an alternative to creolization and abduction as a kind of theorizing out from Caribbean reasonings.

African American political thought reimagined: A review of African American Political Thought: A Collected History

2021 ◽  
pp. 147488512110387
Author(s):  
Adom Getachew
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
American Political Thought

This review essay surveys the contributions of the new edited volume African American Political Thought: A Collected History. The thinker-based approach to the study of African American political thought advanced in the volume highlights the ways in which thinkers reformulate the central political questions of the intellectual tradition and constitute the canon through the citation and invocation of earlier figures. It also draws attention to the rhetorical, strategic, and tactical dimensions of their political thought. The volume sets a new standard for study of African American political thought and makes a persuasive case for the tradition’s important contributions to political theory broadly. However, by tying its significance too closely to its interventions within American political thought, the volume inadvertently minimizes the global resonances of African American political thought.

scholarly journals Fiqh Pluralism: Comprehensive Analysis of Nurkholish Madjid Ideas Regarding Hermeneutics

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Hasan Ridwan
Keyword(s):  
Applied Science ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Pure Science ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
A Value ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
History Of

The idea of Cak Nur (Nurkholish Madjid)in the history of Islamic thought is a complex actual problem. His ideas can be portrayed in two ways, namely pure science and applied science. In the area of "pure science," inclusive hermeneutics is a unique basis for the idea of pluralism. Inclusive hermeneutics views pluralism as a product of a new intellectual tradition. The new intellectual tradition certainly brings a change agenda in the process of the historical continuity of thought in Indonesia. The purpose of this article is to analyze the inclusive hermeneutics of Cak Nur in the concept of fiqh pluralism. The conclusion of this article is that Cak Nur is able to conduct various discourses over the boundaries of normativity so that he can enter the universal realm. This can be seen in the discourse on religions and culture. Cak Nur can break through the barriers that exist in these two problems by trying to dialogue the meeting point of the equation. As a scholar, Cak Nur took this position so that he could sit together with other scientists from various cultures and different beliefs to dialogue and discuss a problem objectively. In the area of applied science, there is an internal influence regarding Islam. This area must be held by Cak Nur because if someone has offered a value, he will enter the element of subjectivity. In studying Islam, he became a Muslim scholar who enlightened byhis flexibility and scientific authority.

scholarly journals Is an Intra-Islamic Theological Ecumenism Possible? A Response to Sherman Jackson

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Atif Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Casual Reader ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Original Essay ◽  
Original Part ◽  
Oxford University Press

It is rare to find within contemporary Islamic thought writers who are conversantin both the classical Islamic theological heritage and recent developmentsin philosophy and theology. More often than not, those who doattempt to engage in Islamic theology display either an ignorance of the pastor the present. This is not, however, the case with Sherman Jackson, whojoins a small handful of others, such as S. H. Nasr, Khalid Abou Fadl, andAbdal Hakim Murad, whose works – diverse as they are – reflect a grasp ofboth the Muslim intellectual tradition and modern thought.Jackson’s recent On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam(Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2002) is not only a translation of al-Ghazali’s Faysal al-Tafriqah bayna al-Islam wa al-Zandaqah (TheDecisive Criterion for Distinguishing Islam from Masked Infidelity), one ofthe most significant medieval attempts to formulate a method to definitivelydelineate “orthodoxy,” but is prefaced by a highly original essay inwhich, among other things, he ventures to extend al-Ghazali’s project byredefining and expanding the limits of Islamic orthodoxy within a contemporarycontext. In this sense, the introduction is a creative and laudableattempt by a serious Muslim thinker to do Islamic theology rather thanmerely exposit the dogmatic formulations of his medieval predecessors. Assuch, the introductory essay is the most original part of the book,1 since itis here that Jackson argues, among other things, for the possibility of anintra-Islamic theological ecumenism, one in which creedal schools that previously saw each other as misguided might come to a greater recognitionof their mutual legitimacies.This is, indeed, an ambitious project. Yet, few of the book’s reviewersseem to have fully appreciated the magnitude of Jackson’s project as laid outin his introductory essay – virtually an independent piece in its own right –and devoted, instead, the bulk of their reviews to the rest of the work.2 WhatI intend to do in the few pages that follow is to respond briefly to some ofhis arguments insofar as they pertain to his ideas on intra-Islamic theologicalecumenism.3 My purpose is to show that despite the ingenuity withwhich he tackles the issue of doctrinal and theological diversity, many of hiscentral arguments are beset by internal contradictions and incongruenciesthat might otherwise evade the casual reader ...

Gender and the Americanist James

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-181
Author(s):  
H. Reuben Neptune
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Independent Reading ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
The Caribbean

This review essay asserts that Aaron Kamugisha’s 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, for all its brilliance, does not do justice to the thought of C. L. R. James, especially in relation to gender. After claiming that Kamugisha mostly misses the emancipatory and at times radical aspects of James’s feminist thinking, which was developed most fully during his years in the United States (1938–52), the author allows that the omission appears to be not deliberate but an unintended consequence of Kamugisha’s faithful following of the dominant North Atlantic interpretation of the “American James.” In particular, the author sees Kamugisha as seeming to accept without question the hegemonic Americanist assumption that James took a romantic excursion in the United States, and thus Beyond Coloniality neglects the deeply gendered analysis at the heart of James’s 1950 manuscript that eventually found publication in 1993 as American Civilization. Although James certainly never got out of “gender jail” in his lifetime, American Civilization betrayed his hopeful vision of escape. This essay proposes to Kamugisha that a careful and independent reading of this text could have revealed James as a far more sophisticated failure than the virtually helpless figure drawn in Beyond Coloniality.

scholarly journals The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-161
Author(s):  
Laith Kubba
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Islamic Philosophy ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
The Rich

The Islamic fnlellectual Tradition in Persia is an edited collection of essays by SeyyedHossein Nasr, the Iranian metaphysician and ontolgist, on Muslim philosophers and theintimate relationship between Persian culture and its philosophical schools. The 24 essayswere written over a period of four decades and scattered among numerous journals and collections.The book is divided into six parts: Islamic thought and Persian culture; earlyIslamic philosophy; the works of al Suhrawardj; philosophers, poets, and scientists; laterIslamic philosophy; and Islamic thought in modem Iran. The essays highlight Nasr's prolificand learned scholarship on the development of Islamic philosophy and illuminatemany aspects of the rich philosophical traditions in Islamic Persia and its history.Throughout this unique collection of articles, Nasr covers the lives and works ofmore than fifteen prominent thinkers and scientists who made significant contributions tothe evolution of the Islamic intellectual traditions in the Muslim world in general and inIslamic Persia in particular. Among those covered are al Farabi, lbn Sina, al BirOni, N????irKhusraw, Fakhr al Din al Razi, al Suhrawardi, Quib al Din Shirazi, $adr al Din Shiriizi,and Mullii HadT Sabzawari. Nasr presents their ideas through their actual works andinforms readers of their conditions and life stories in an easy and enjoyable sty le, whichallows the reader to learn about their ideas and conditions through the lives of these greatphilosophers. Their lives and works cover a wide spectrum of the Muslim mind and beara noticeable interplay of ideas from different fields, ideas that can neither be separatedfrom their conditions nor confined to one field.The book touches on many subjects of pure academic interest and provides an insightinto Persian culture. Although the essays are useful in researching the intellectual historyof Muslim philosophers in the largest sense, no one essay researches the development ofspecific ideas or aspects of the Persian philosophers. Nasr 's essays describe al Fara bi asthe "second teacher" in philosophy and elaborates on lbn Sina's contributions to logic andlanguage, metaphysics and cosmology, medicine pharmacology, and psychology. Someof their works cover classical debates on being and existence, what is learned and what isrealized, discursive knowledge and the insights of illumination, and concepts of unity and ...

scholarly journals “Atomisme” Dan “Hilomorfisme” Dalam Diskursus Pemikiran Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-120
Author(s):  
Akhmad Rofii Damyati
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
History Of

Physics is the study of natural world. In the history of Islamic thought, there were two primary intellectual school in which nature was discussed: Atomism and Hylomorphism. Atomism is generally belong mutakallimin, or Islamic speculative theology, that in general approached issues in physics from an atomistic framework. While Hylomorphism is generally belong to Islamic philosophers that had its roots in the Greek intellectual tradition and more specifically in the philosophical thought of Aristotle. This writing is going to explain the atomistic theories found among the mutakallimin, that is called as “Atomism” shool of thought, followed by the Aristo-Avicennian natural philosophy, that is called as “Hylomorphism” school of thought.

scholarly journals Genealogi Liberalisasi Pemikiran Islam

ULUMUNA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-140
Author(s):  
Hamid Fahmy
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
The West ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The Mind

Liberalization of islamic thought is often related to or claimed as renewal of islamic thought (tajdid), yet the term ‘liberal’ itself has no root in islamic intellectual tradition, let alone the concepts offered by this movement. The genealogy of thought that underlines this movement is traceable from the trend of postmodernism and the remnant of modernism in the West. In fact, the shift from modernism to postmodernism in the West brought about the approaches of social and human sciences studies, including religious studies. Such doctrines that came along with the trend of thought in Western postmodernism as relativism, nihilism, pluralism, equality, feminism, democratization in all respect are doctrines that played pivotal role in liberalization of religious thought in the West. Now, those doctrines are playing in the mind of the exponent of liberalization of Islamic thought with almost the same rationale with the program of secularization.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 311-322
Author(s):  
Johannes Zachhuber
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Islamic Thought

The final chapter begins by summarizing the argument of previous parts of the book. It reiterates how the conceptual demands of Christology were in tension with the tenets of Cappadocian philosophy. Yet as the latter had firmly become part of the intellectual tradition among the later Fathers, this tension was not resolved by abandoning the terms and concepts of the Cappadocian theory. Instead, individual authors sought to rework it in order to make it conducive to the specific challenges of the Christological controversy. A second part of the chapter moves from the technicalities of the Patristic debates to the larger philosophical issues hidden in them. Especially, the problem of historical individuality is identified as gaining increasing centrality. A third and final part sketches some trajectories on which Patristic philosophy was passed on to posterity in Byzantium, in Islamic thought, in the Western Middle Ages, and in early modern religious thought.

scholarly journals ALUR TRANSMISSION OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT DALAM ISLAMIC THOUGHT; AN INTRODUCTION KARYA ABDULLAH SAEED TERBITAN ROUTLEDGE 2006

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Ahmad Putra
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

<p><em>This paper describes the fundamental teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, the development of religious knowledge, and the social and political context that shaped the intellectual tradition of Islam. Abdullah Saeed, in the transmission of spiritual experience and Islamic thought, introduced the basic teachings of Islam. The emergence of Islam is closely related to the history of its birthplace, the city of Mecca. Besides, Abdullah Saeed also discussed the beginning of the development of religious knowledge, which was immediately explained by the Qur'an and the emergence of sects that influenced the course of change towards truth. Each of these sects and sects has its doctrine, and if there is anything against it, there is undoubtedly a separate assessment of the differences that are believed. Several groups with various theological or religio-political orientations emerged. Among them are Kharijis (khawarij), Shia, Qadaris (qadariyya), Mu‘tazilis (mu‘tazila), Jabris (jabriyya) and Murji'is (murji'a).</em></p>

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