Tidak ada dikotomi antara pemikiran barat dan pemikiran islam. Journal of religious culture goetheuniversitat uni frankfurt. He was known as an advocate of a new islamic modernism and humanism. Article information, pdf download for rethinking islam today, open epub for rethinking islam today. Munculnya di kotomidikotomi ini dilatarbelakangi oleh sejarah antara dunia islam dan. Islam, democracy, and cosmopolitanism by ali mirsepassi. This article examines mohammed arkoun as one of the pioneers of a new muslim intellectualism seeking new ways of engaging with islam by combining intimate familiarity with the islamic civilizational heritage turath and solid knowledge of recent achievements by the western academe in the humanities and social sciences. Taking a cue from michel foucault, if not his publicist edward said, arkoun claims to have seen what his predecessors missed. Islam is still imagined as inferior to jewish and christian traditions, unchanging, and militant.
Pdf mohammad arkouns theory of quranic hermeneutics. Arkoun s critique of islamic reason serves as the unifying theme, or leitmotif for the different concepts he elaborated over the course of time. Arkouns book has been cited in a number of scholarly sources for providing a. Masthead text only contact about us sitemap home politics society culture dossiers dialogues slide shows to the editor links search albert memmi islam in europe please enter your search terms. Professor mohammed arkoun was a prominent and influential figure in. The article outlines a need to study islam as an epistemological project. Arkoun, born in algeria, is a professor emeritus of. Please see wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. A textual analysis of his writings shows that his major concern is the methodology of. Mohammed arkoun s rethinking islam is an illustration of the contemporary fecundity of islam. He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular scholars in islamic studies contributing to contemporary intellectual islamic reform.
In answering these and other questions, arkoun provides an introduction to one of the worlds great religions and offers a biting, radical critique of islamology as it has been practiced in both east and west. Muslims need a rethinking of their faith, based on rationality and reason not on dogma, in order to create a progressive, modern islamic. I had the privilege to be in contact with two of the worlds revolutionary professors and thinkers. So the need of the hour is to understand islam in its totality both by the west and the muslims themselves to seek a solution thata is not based on a zerosum outcome. Arkoun is highly critical of the past and present conditions of islamic thought, and. Mohammad arkoun has been credited with the much needed attention to the quranic hermeneutics.
Rethinking islam today mohammed arkoun, 2003 sage journals. Annals of the american academy of political and social science, vol. Arkoun s rethinking islam is the most useful analysis of the muslim world i have yet encountered. Rethinking islam by mohammed arkoun, 97808384740, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Your use of the jstor archive indicates your acceptance of the.
Mohammed arkoun biography, career, ideology, publications. About rethinking islam, in 1994 the new york times wrote that it was an illustration of the contemporary fecundity of islam and defined its author the leading frenchlanguage spokesman calling for a rethinking of islam in a modern mode. A student of twentiethcentury social science in the west and an admirer of liberalism, he selfconsciously distances himself from western. Although he is a product of islamic culture, mohammed arkoun nonetheless disagrees with the islamic establishment and militant islamist groups.
Arkoun rethinking islam today free download as pdf file. Mohammed arkoun is currently an emeritus professor. Mejcc middle east journal of culture and communication 4 2011 2343 brill. Common questions, uncommon answers, today, westview press, boulder 1994. Mohammed arkoun a berber from the mountainous region of algeria, mohammed arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of islamic thought.
To master contemporary social challenges, fazlur rahman d. Mohammed arkoun died in september 2010, kamal salibi died in september 2011. First published in english in 1965, albert memmis classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike. Mohammed arkoun is currently emeritus professor of the history of islamic thought.
Professor muhammad arkoun 1928 2010, an algerianfrench thinker, defends a postmodernist position, criticizes the islamic reason as well as the eurocentric modernism, using an historical anthropological methodology, and aims. Arkoun rethinking islam today revelation islamic philosophy. Hasil buah pemikiran mohammed arkoun dapat dikatakan sangat fenomenal, tulisan dalam berbagai jurnal ilmiah atau buku kumpulan tulisan bersama temantemanya yang membahas masalah bagaimana menelaah kembali pemikiran islam dan metodemetode yang digunakanya. Common questions, uncommon answers is a book on islamic philosophy by dr. Islam to reform or to subvert mohammed arkoun ebook download as pdf file. Biography mohammed arkoun was born on february 1, 1928 in tourirtmimoun, in kabilia, a barber populated mountains in the east of the aljazair. Arkoun s book has been cited in a number of scholarly sources for providing a contemporary understanding of the development of islamic philosophy and its. Bagi arkoun tidak ada yang dapat disebut pinggiran atau pusat, tidak ada kelompok yang terpinggirkan atau yang dominan, tidak ada kepercayaan yang dapat dikategorikan sebagai rendah maupun agung, pikiranlah yang menciptakan kebenaran. Rethinking islam common questions, uncommon answers. This is a book for the beginning student of islam and for the general reader uneasy with media images of islam as a monolithic, anti.
Social scientists have failed to liberate islamic studies from pro and antiorientalism cliches. The book is organized into 24 chapters based on 24 basic questions e. As he began to consider how one might rethink islam in the contemporary world. Islam is still imagined as inferior to jewish and christian traditions, unchanging, and militant by the west. Influential islamic intellectual activists and religious leaders, neotraditionalists and post modernist, across the muslim world engage in a process of rethinking islam s relationship to secularism and modern muslim states as well as issues of muslim citizenship in the nonmuslim secular countries of. Pdf mohammad arkoun has been credited with the much needed attention to the. Mohammed arkoun 19282010 was a leading scholar of islam, teaching in france. A berber from the mountainous region of algeria, mohammed arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of islamic thought. I knew more about islam from salibi, who was christian, and more about christianity from arkoun, who was muslim. In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic of the tensions embedded in his. Common questions, uncommon answers by mohammed arkoun, robert d.
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