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Teachers must reclaim their authority in age of AI
No full textThis article reflects on the evolving challenges faced by educators in the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Drawing from semester-long observations, the author highlights how AI has altered students’ approaches to academic tasks, often resulting in overreliance, weakened critical engagement, and blurred authorship. While acknowledging AI’s benefits in efficiency and idea generation, the article argues that its integration into education requires thoughtful ethical frameworks and a renewed emphasis on Natural Intelligence (NI)—critical reasoning, moral discernment, and spiritual consciousness. The author contends that teachers must reclaim their authoritative role as mentors and moral guides, ensuring that human wisdom anchors learning processes amid rapid technological change. Ultimately, the article calls for collaborative efforts among educators, curriculum designers, and policymakers to develop balanced, responsible, and human-centred pedagogical practices in an AI-driven world
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An insight to Islamic philosophy and the Islamisation of philosophy
Full text linkPhilosophy in the Islamic intellectual tradition is referred to both as falsafah and ḥikmah. The former term is the Arabisation of the Greek term philosophia meaning “love of wisdom” and the latter is the term taken from the Qur’ān to signify a Divine gift of abundant good, and wisdom derived from al-kitāb (the Book) and the prophets. Yet Muslims treat philosophy with suspicion and caution even when the Qur’ānic term hikmah (wisdom) refers to it.
What are the reasons for this fear of a science (‘ilm) or discipline which exalts the use of the intellect (al-‘aql) or intelligence as exhorted in the Qur’ān? The primary reason put forward for this phenomenon is that Greek philosophy had influenced Islamic philosophy and that there were Greek ideas and teachings which Muslim philosophers injected into their own thoughts while still maintaining their Islamic perspective. The past Muslim scholars both from the disciplines of kalam and tasawwuf appreciated and accommodated — in varying degrees — the philosophical thoughts of their Greek predecessors
Making knowledge useful: applying al-Ghazali’s teachings in the Malay world
No full textThe eighteenth century scholar of Malay–Arab descent Shaykh Abd al-Samad al-Palimbani wrote a seminal Malay-Jawi text entitled Siyar al-Salikin ila Ibadat Rabb al-Alamin, being a translation-cum-commentary on the Mukhtasar Ihya Ulum al-Din of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. Abd al-Samad’s Siyar exercised a great impact on Malay religious life and thought, by applying al-Ghazali’s teachings to solve the intellectual and religious problems faced by the Malay community during his era. Abd al-Samad discerned two main crises: first, the lack of knowledge among the Malays on the essential teachings of Sufism or tasawwuf; secondly, scholars who suffered from self-delusion and misled their students. He creatively applied encyclopaedic scholarship by providing an extensive bibliography of over one hundred titles of works on Sufism, categorised for each stage of study to ensure qualified access to esoteric knowledge as well as to avoiding misunderstanding of doctrines. Thereby Abd al-Samad made al-Ghazali’s spiritual teachings relevant and useful to the Malays in their attempt to discern truth from falsehood when dealing with competing currents of thought and beliefs prevailing at the time. The problems faced by Malay Muslims three hundred years ago are instructive for us today. Muslims may respond creatively as did Shaykh Abd al-Samad by drawing upon the higher Islamic intellectual tradition for solutions to their present predicament
Setting goals and self-actualization
No full textThe first question is “how did I decide on this topic?” I happened to come across a video by Anthony Robbins who is a very well-known and by the way very wealthy motivational speaker from the US and listened to his talk on “setting goals.” If before I was cynical about Western motivational speakers who do not include God, religion and spirituality in their views, this time I paid attention and finished listening to what he had to say. His talk did strike a few chords in me.
So tonight’s talk I would say is an Islamic version of some of the important points Anthony Robbins spoke about the topic of “setting goals.
A terminological issue: Islamic phılosophy or “phılosophy in the Islamıc world”?
No full textThere have been debates and contentions on what should be the term, translated into English, given to the discipline of falsafah or ḥikmah in the Islamic intellectual tradition. Some of the common terms given to it by both Western and Muslim scholars are ‗Islamic philosophy‘, ‗Muslim philosophy‘, ‗Arab philosophy‘ and ‗Arabic philosophy‘. More recently the term ‗philosophy in the Islamic World‘ was made popular by the scholar and philosopher Peter Adamson. The reason for using this term which Adamson considers as a terminological issue is that it is the ―most appropriate‖, and the term Islamic Philosophy is ―too obvious‖. In this paper, firstly, the different terms given to the discipline of falsafah or ḥikmah as aforementioned will be discussed and secondly, why the term ‗Islamic Philosophy‘ is the most precise term to be given to it will be shown. A critique of why the term coined by Adamson is imprecise and does not address the essential meaning of the discipline itself and its role in Islamic civilization will also be undertaken. This issue is of particular significance since using and explaining the correct term would be helpful to clarify how ‗Islamic philosophy‘ is essentially Islamic in its definitions, principles, and characteristics. This counters the common misunderstanding that Islam does not have an authentic philosophical tradition of its own. Understanding the real meaning and role of Islamic philosophy is important to avoid the commonly held view by Muslims and nonMuslims alike that Islam has an anti-intellectual stance which is the cause of violence and extremism among its adherents. Keywords: Terminology, Meaning, Role, Islamic Philosophy, ‗Philosophy in the Islamic world‘
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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