Entries by simar

From Aslamat al-Ma’rifa to al-Takāmul al-Ma’rifī: A Study of the Shift from Islamization to Integration of Knowledge

Over the past half-century, the study of Islam in the Muslim world has been preoccupied with three global projects: maqāṣid al-sharīᶜa (the higher objectives of revealed law), al-wasaṭiyya al-islāmiyya (Islamic moderation), and aslamat al-maᶜrifa (Islamization of knowledge). Of these three, the latter has been the most substantial enterprise due to its ambitious work plan, extensive […]

Ibn Khaldūn Between Legal Theory and Legal Practice – Mourad Laabdi

Beyond his prevailing reputation as an historian of imposing stature, Abd al-RaAm:n Ibn Khald<n (d. 808/1406) was recognized by his contemporaries for his mastery of several other scholarly domains. A close friend and rival, Lisan al-Din Ibn al-Khatib(d. 776/1374), attributed to him books on logic and arithmetic, a commentary on a poem he had written […]

La Grande chaîne de la conscience – Par Mohammed Rustom

Dans son Essai sur l’homme, le poète britannique Alexander Pope proposait au XVIIIèsiècle une formulation succincte d’une ancienne doctrine philosophique de la réalité. Cette doctrine, à laquelle Arthur Lovejoy a donné le nom de “grande chaîne des êtres,” soutient que l’existence est une structure organique, entremêlée et hiérarchisée, reposant sur les degrés décroissants d’états de […]

NEKI SAVJETI I OPOMENE U POGLEDU ISLAMSKIH NAUKA1 – Mohammed Rustom, S engleskog preveo Haris DUBRAVAC

Sažetak: U ovom nevelikom tekstu Mohammed Rustom, redovni profesor islamskih nauka na Carleton univerzitetu(Kanada), upućuje savjete koji su u vezi s napredovanjem kroz različite faze akademskog života u islamskimnaukama. Često su ti savjeti iz praktičnog domena zbog čega onome ko se osposobljava kao proučavalac mogubiti od iznimne koristi, naročito studentima islamskih nauka. Pažljivom čitaocu neće […]

Why Self-Care Is Not Enough: The Nature of True Well-Being – Samuel Bendeck Sotillos

The notion of self-care—like its precursor, self-help—has emerged due to a spiritual vacuum in the contemporary world. The burgeoning mental health crisis that is prevalent today appears inseparable from the broader existential predicament facing humanity. Mainstream psychology and its therapies have not been able to address these challenges, in response to which we have seen […]

Metaphysical Institutions: Islam and the Modern Project – Caner K Dagli

What is real, possible, and good when it comes to human beings thinking together about the real, the possible, and the good? In this book, these ultimate questions will be explored on their own terms, and will be made particular through a question that is often limited to history, anthropology, and religious studies, namely, “What […]

Why should we study Islamic Psychology – Amber Haque

This is an outline of my talk at the first Islamic Psychology Seminar in Paris, May 12, 2024. The question “why” is essential because it helps us gain new knowledge and make better decisions. It all boils down to understanding and staying true to our faith, identity, and purpose in this life and aſterlife while […]

Ibn Arabi on the Ontology of Trust – William C. Chittick

Abstract: In a world where people often relegate God to the realm of illusion and look on “trust in God” as a psychological crutch, tospeak about trust as an actual dimension of reality must seem odd. People would rather imagine that trust is something we should have in our favorite ideology, or perhaps science, or […]

Life after Life: Mullā Ṣadrā on Death and Immortality.” Religious Studies (Cambridge), 60 (2023): 104-116 – Muhammad U. Faruque

Abstract: The purpose of this article is twofold: first, I will reconstruct Mullā Ṣadrā’s complex arguments for the soul’s immortality based on its immaterial nature. Second and finally, I will briefly probe and assess various epistemological and metaphysical objections against Ṣadrā’s immaterialist conception of the soul. Ṣadrā contends that our bodily death marks an awakening […]