Exploring the Reality and Aspirations of Muslims The divisions of the Umat in Indonesia

Islam in Indonesia has played an important role in socio-political development in its recorded history. However, it is also true that there have been various theological and political debates and disagreements in the umat. The implementation of syari’at Islam is one of the major subjects of such discussions. The emergence…

Philanthropic Aspects of Islam: The Case of the Fundamentalist Movement in Indonesia

Religion as an Organic Entity: The Emergence of Fundamental-Liberalism in Islam in Indonesia and in Japanese Shinran Buddhism

The Challenge to Religious Tolerance: Fundamentalist Resistance to a Non-Muslim Leader in Indonesia

It is important to question whether a long-standing tradition of religious tolerance in Indonesia has been overturned by the 2017 gubernatorial election. Equally important is that we explore the influence of religion in relation to the socio-political behavior of people. In the following parts of this paper, we attempt to…

Islamic Capitalism: The Muslim Approach to Economic Activities in Indonesia

Revisiting the Women Question : an Islamic Perspective

Rethinking Culture, Rethinking the Academy : Tawhidi Perspective

Foundation of Islam : the Islamic View of Man

Contemporary Social Theory-Tawhidi Projections-part2

Contemporary Social Theory-Tawhidi Projections-part1

The Enlightment Revisited : a Review Eassy

Paradigms in Political Science Revisited : Critical Options and Muslim Perspectives

Community, Justice, And Jihad: Elements Of The Muslim Historical Consciousness

Islamization As A Force Of Global Cultural Renewal Or: The Relevance Of The Tawhidi Episteme To Modernity

Contrasting Epistemics: Tawhid, The Vocationist And Social Theory

Beyond Cultural Parodies And Parodizing Cultures: Shaping A Discourse

Squaring The Circle In The Study Of The Middle East: Islamic Liberalism Reconsidere

Islamic Civilisation as a Global Presence with Special Reference to its Knowledge Culture

The main aim of this article is to discuss the meaning and characteristics of Islamic civilisation and its global presence, particularly in the field of knowledge culture. Since both terms have been contested in contemporary scholarship to the point of their critics denying epistemic legitimacy to the concept of Islamic…

Islam and the Challenge of Diversity and Pluralism: Must Islam Reform Itself?

This article seeks to present a counter view of the Western critique of contemporary Islam with specific reference to its treatment of the problem of diversity and pluralism. The prevailing Western view of Islam’s experience of diversity and pluralism is that it has failed to positively respond to this important…

Economics as Science: Insights from Classical Muslim Classifications of the Sciences

This article seeks to emphasise the need to re-examine the foundational assumptions of modern economics, especially in light of the traditional Islamic idea of economic wisdom and Islamic conception of the science of economics as conceived by Muslim political philosophers. As argued by the philosophers and more generally the epistemologists…

Islam and the Three Waves of Globalisation: The Southeast Asian Experience

This article is intended to comment on the civilisational history of Islam in Southeast Asia. The history is explained and accounted for in terms of the three major waves of globalisation that have impacted the region since the arrival of Islam as early as the eleventh century. The first wave,…

Interfaith Dialogue as a New Approach in Islamic Education

I would like to take up the issue of the need to re-examine our traditional approaches to Islamic education. This is in view of certain fundamental changes that are taking place both in the demographic and political maps of Muslim majority countries and in the Muslim perception of Islamic education…

The Place and Role of Maqasid al-Shari’ah in the Ummah’s 21st Century Civilisational Renewal

The author of this article argues that - from the point of view of the ideals of human civilisation as set forth by the Qur'an - modern civilisation, which is largely of Western inspiration and making, has undergone a progressive inner decay while displaying marvels of scientific and technological achievements…

Family Values, the Family Institution, and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: An Islamic Perspective

The main aim of this article is to discuss the concept of family and its values and its place and role as a multi-dimensional institution from the Islamic perspective. The author seeks to show that the Islamic family institution as envisaged by the Quran and as practised by Muslims throughout…

The Qur’anic Identity of the Muslim Ummah: Tawhidic Epistemology as its Foundation and Sustainer

This article seeks to serve as the necessary background and foundation to another article by the author which is to appear in the upcoming issue of this journal. It explains the identity of the Muslim community (ummah) within the framework of the quranic theory of multi-religious identities rooted in a…

The Identity Crisis of the Contemporary Muslim Ummah: The Loss of Tawhidic Epistomoly as its Root Cause

The author aims to show that the identity of the Muslim community (ummah) in the modern and contemporary period is in a state of crisis. The ummah is defined as a knowledge-community founded on, nourished and sustained by the quranic tawhidic epistemology. The article presents an established concept and theory…

Cultural Symbiosis and the Role Of Religion in the Contemporary World: An Islamic Perspective

The main aim of this paper is to provide an introductory discussion of the issue of the human need for a cultural symbiosis in the contemporary global community and of the constructive role that religion could play in delivering this global need. We will, however, be examining the issue at…

Towards A New Science of Civilization. A Synthetic Study of the Philosophical Views of al-Farabi, Ibn Khaldun, Arnold Toynbee, and Samuel Huntington

This article presents a synthetic study of the philosophical views of al-Farabi and Ibn Khaldun from classical Islam and Arnold Toynbee and Samuel Huntington from the modern West on the subject of civilizational science. On the basis of the Aristotelian idea of a true science, this article argues that al-Farabi…

ISLAM AND THE CHALLENGE OF DIVERSITY AND PLURALISM: MUST ISLAM REFORM ITSELF?

This article seeks to present a counter view of the Western critique of contemporary Islam with specifi c reference to its treatment of the problem of diversity and pluralism. The prevailing Western view of Islam’s experience of diversity and pluralism is that it has failed to positively respond to this…

Islamic Science, Modern Science, and Post-Modernity: Towards a New Synthesis through a TawÍÊdic Epistemology

Synthesis of ideas in all sectors of human life and thought – that is, of human civilization in general – is the very basis of the existence (raison être) of the religion of Islam. Islam has been revealed as a synthesis of all religions. It created a new civilization which…

The Nature and Extent of Criticism of Evolutionary Theory

In this essay, we will look into the existing body of criticisms which have been brought against the modern theory of evolution; we will investigate the nature and extent of these criticisms and con­ clude with an evaluation of their meanings and significance and the possible impact they will have…

Islam and the Problem of Cultural Symbiosis

The Quran’s Universal Perspective on Dialogue of Religions and Civilizations and Islam’s Theological Foundation of Peaceful Coexistence

Environmental Health and Welfare as an Important Aspect of Civilizational Islam

Modern man learns the wisdom of ecological equilibrium and environmental health the bitter way. It is also the expensive way. Not until he has seen with his own eyes the bitter fruits of his scientific and technological culture and of his extravagant life style does he come to realize how…

Integrated Model of Civilisational Development An Islamic Perspective

This article provides an Islamic framework for the study of development and civilization. It proposes an integrated model for balanced development. As such, it addresses the following points: the concept of civilization and civilizational development from an Islamic perspective, mapping the civilizational model for balanced development and reviving the civilizational…

THE ANTI-ISLAMIST DISCOURSE: THE CASE OF AL-BUTI

This paper explores al-Būṭī’s critical view on contemporary Islamists who, according to al-Būṭī, have misapplied the Islamic law and sacrificed da‘wah in favour of political gains. Among their dogmatic beliefs is the ruthless and hasty call for the establishment of the Islamic state, the takfīr of rulers, arbitrary application of…

Enhancing Affective Domain in Training Science Based Teachers: Towards an Islamic Approach

Abstract This paper investigates the role of affective domain in teacher and science education from an Islamic perspective. Affective domain constitutes an integral part of the general framework and theories of teacher and science education; in designing the philosophy and objectives of teacher and science education, emphasis is placed on…

The pattern of cycle of civilization: resemblance between Ibn Khaldun and Malik Bennabi’s views

There is very much resemblance between Ibn KhaldËn and Malik Bennabi’s views on the concept of the cycle of civilization. It is evident that the two thinkers maintain that civilization in its rise and fall follows the cyclical pattern whereby a civilization commences its course in history, develops and reaches…

Concept of Civilisation and Sustainable Development: A Maqasidic Orientation

This paper discusses the concept of “civilisation” and “civilisational sustainable development” with special reference to maqasid and values system in Islam. Islam, in its very nature, posits that civilisation is an integrated and a multi-faceted social phenomenon involving intellectual, social, socio-economic, cultural, spiritual, moral, material, and other aspects. The concept…

Toward a Worldview for Civilizational Development: A Study of the Islamic Worldview

Toward an Islamic Framework for Worldview Studies: Preliminary Theorization

The paper examines the importance of designing a framework for studying worldviews within the parameters of contemporary Islamic thought. It briefly reviews both selected western and Islamic stances on worldview studies. The literature reveals that research on this topic and its application to different spheres has become a topic of…

Capacities of Transcendent Philosophy in the Elucidation of Iran’s Revolution

Iran’s Revolution has been to date analyzed with a variety of theories, but the gap in the presentation of a native theory for its analysis has been always felt. Given the significance of this subject, the present paper attempts to shed some light on the capacities and position of transcendent…

Islamic Civilization

Islamic Civilization

Civilization and Culture

Secularization Theories and Sociological Paradigms: A Reformulation of the Private-Public Dichotomy and the Problem of Societal Integration

Civilization and Its Discontents

Orthodoxy in Post‐Modern Pluralist Societies

Sociology and Theology

A Sociological View of the Secularization of Theology

The Decline of Organized Religion in Western Civilization

Christian Faith and Civilization

East Asian Approaches: Region, History and Civilization

Theology of culture

Theology and the Transformation of Culture – Niebuhr Revisited

The Three Horizons: Culture, Integration and Communication

The Role of Religion in the Dialogue of Civilizations: Yearbook on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Religious Pluralism, Legal Development, and Societal Complexity: Rudimentary Forms of Civil Religion

Religiosity, Regional Sub-Culture, and Social Behavior

Religion, Culture and Society in the ‘Information Age’

Religion in the Context of Culture, Theology, and Global Ethics

Religion and Cultural Evolution

Reconsidering the Status of Popular Culture in Tillich’s Theology of Culture

Post-secular society, transnational religious civilizations and legal pluralism

Modernisation of Traditional Societies and the Struggle for new Cultural Ethos

Models of Religious and Spiritual Influences for Political, Social and Cultural Directions

Ideology, Culture, and British New Testament Studies: the Challenge of Cultural Studies

Unity of Faith and Pluralism in Culture: a Lesson from the Byzantine Missionaries

On the limits of American Jewish social engineering: Ironic reflections on Prof. Mordecai M. Kaplan and R. Aharon Kotier

The Bible and the Significance of Civilization

Judaism: An Evolving Religious Civilization

Science Fiction, Christianity, and Technic Civilization

Mordecai Kaplan: Prophet of Pragmatic Theology

A Re-Examination of the Religion of the Indus Civilization

Beyond Denominationalism?: Community and Culture in American Religion

Civil Religion, Technocracy, and the Private Sphere: Further Comments on Cultural Integration in Advanced Societies

Civilization in Israel:Kulturgeschichte Israels Alfred Bertholet

Culture, Power and Ideology in Third World Theologies

Interpretation of the Bible and the Progress of Christian Civilization

‘High Theology’/‘Popular Theology’? The Arts, Popular Culture and the Contemporary Theological Task

The View from Somewhere: The Meaning of Method in “Christ and Culture”

Faith, Existence and Culture

Christ as Word: Gospel and Culture

Toward Unity of Culture: A Program for a Program

Ethics in Popular Culture

Culture in the Bible and the Culture of the Minjung

Culture, Society and Contextual Theologies

Moral Cultures and Moral Logics

Culture, Religion, and Theology

Christianity and Civilization

Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?

Christianity and Civilization

Islam as a Special World-System

Reimagining Islam in DiasporaThe Politics of Mediated Community

Contemporary Islamic Intellectual History: A Theoretical Perspective

Overcoming Religious Secular Divide: Islam’s Contribution to Civilization

Toward a Muslim Constructive Role In the Contemporary World Civilization

the islamic civilization

Islamic Civilization Between Medina and Athena

Islam and the West: Testing the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Thesis