The Challenge of the Believing Intellectual

This paper analyzes the role of Professor al Faruqi as a believing intellectual who contributed toward the development of an alternative model of modernity in which religion plays a definite and contributory role. Alternative modernity is not inevitably secular or nonreligious. This Islamic version...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d165785cda0c463e8c2c57f0f70f14182021-12-02T17:49:35ZThe Challenge of the Believing Intellectual10.35632/ajis.v28i3.3342690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/d165785cda0c463e8c2c57f0f70f14182011-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/334https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This paper analyzes the role of Professor al Faruqi as a believing intellectual who contributed toward the development of an alternative model of modernity in which religion plays a definite and contributory role. Alternative modernity is not inevitably secular or nonreligious. This Islamic version of modernity is one amongst the multiple modernities of the globalized world. It puts forth a “modern” knowledge. Professor al Faruqi contributed to this venture through his project called the “Islamization of Knowledge.” In this way, Professor Ismail al-Faruqi illustrates the changing role of believing intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century. John O. VollInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 28, Iss 3 (2011)
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The Challenge of the Believing Intellectual
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