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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: compatibility of Islam with modernity
    sub title: a study of the thought of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
  name:
    name part: Owoyemi, Musa Yusuf
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    place:
      place term: Kuala Lumpur
    publisher: Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia
    date issued: 2011
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: xi, 300 leaves : illustrations ; 30cm.
  abstract: The issue of the compatibility of Islam with modernity continues to be a recurring phenomenon, especially in this present time where the world has become a global village and where cultures and civilizations are constantly interacting and edging out one another. In the Muslim world, the issue centres on how to relate and interact with Western modernity considering the sharp differences between the two civilizations. While some Muslims hold that there cannot be a meeting point between them, others argue that Muslims should embrace modernity based on certain variables, the lack of which, they believe, is responsible for the backwardness and underdevelopment of the Muslim world. In the light of this debate, this thesis examines, analytically and critically, the issue of the compatibility of Islam with modernity as propounded by some modernist Muslim scholars through the views of one of the leading Islamic scholar and philosopher, Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Using the historical approach and analytical and critical methods, this thesis traces the genesis and growth of modernity and explores its central themes. It discusses the compatibility position by highlighting submissions on the issue before analysing the thoughts of Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Sacred Traditions (which includes Islam and other religions before it) and modernity. Finally, the thesis compares these two views based on the Islamic worldview, the present realities in the Muslim and modern Western world, and also based on the works of Muslim and modern Western scholars. It comes to the conclusion that the theory of the compatibility of Islam with modernity is an unworkable theory which leads not to the betterment of Islam nor Muslims but to the distortion of the Islamic faith and the creation of more problems in Muslim societies. Therefore, the thesis emphasizes the utilization of Islamization, in the comprehensive sense, in establishing a working relationship with modernity while advocating that Muslims should not …
  note: by Musa Yusuf Owoyemi
  note: Abstracts in English and Arabic.
  note: "A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Usul al-Din and Comparative Religion)." --On title page.
  note: Thesis (Ph.D)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2011.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 281-300).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-my---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
      name part: 1933-
    topic: Views on modernity
  subject:
    topic: Islam and modernisme
  subject:
    topic: Modernism and Islam
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Islam and secularism
  classification: CB357
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/6931
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 180918
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng