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The Development in al-Ghazālī's Epistemology
Get PDFThe paper is concerned with the development in al-Ghazālī's theory of knowledge, which evolved through various stages. Both al-Ghazālī’s life and writings reflect this development. As a student, he began his academic life with an interest in traditional Islamic studies such as jurisprudence. After he assumed his first teaching position at the Nizāmīyah school of Baghdad he became a methodological skeptic, a situation which prompted him to study all schools of thought available at the time in search for peremptory knowledge (‘ilm al-yaqīn). From skepticism he moved to Sufism, and finally there are indications that he ended up studying the traditions (Ḥadith) of Prophet Muhammad (SAS), which led many to claim that he shifted to the methodology of the traditionalists [ahl al-hadīth] and that he abandoned Sufism
The Concept of Culture and CulturalTransformation: Views of Malik Bennabi
Get PDFThis article aims at contributing to an integrated understanding of Malik Bennabi's view of culture and cultural transformation. An attempt is made to analyze Bennabi's concepts and ideas that constitute the core of his study of culture and its dynamic civilizing function. The paper introduces Bennabi's understanding of culture as a project with a pivotal educational value. His cultural envisioning shows that ethics, aesthetics, practical reasoning and technical skills form the nucleus of any civilizational change. The paper highlights Bennabi's view that culture is an important social and educational agent of change that can restore the sense of efficacy and creativity to the Islamic society
Study on Second Language Learners of Arabic: An Error Analysis Approach. By Jassem Ali Jassem
Get PDFArab-Islamic History and the Orientalizing Imagination
No full textWhile such critics of Orientalism as Said and Meyer have shown, the inescapable intellectual frameworks which imprisoned the Western mind in its treatment of the East, this essay specifies "historical" Orientalism as a touchstone to deepen and sharpen our awareness, not only of the mechanic of Orientalist thinking, but also of the various motives and hidden compulsions that made the shapers of public opinion tackle the Arab-Islamic past. An array of writings is analysed and investigated to come out with fresh conclusions that invite inspiring and dialectic-developing arguments
Distributive Justice: The Islamic Perspective
Get PDFThe paper discusses the issue of distributive justice from social and Islamic perspectives. In the former, an attempt is made to examine research conducted in the social and organizational context, while in the latter the issue is deliberated in the light of Islamic concerns, values and practices. Distributive justice is concerned with the norms of resource allocation and perception of fairness by the recipients. The norms may be merit, need, or equality. Which norm is perceived as fair depends upon several factors, such as type of resource, purpose of allocation, and relationship characteristics between the allocator and the recipients. Islamic view on distributive justice emphasizes its humanistic concerns. It subsumes three principles, namely, ʿAdl, Insāf, and Ihsān. The religion accepts merit as the basis of resource distribution yet adopts measures to minimize inequalities. The paper discusses the concept of Zakah in this context
