Jihad or Ijtihad by S. Irfan Habib

Author:S. Irfan Habib [Habib, S. Irfan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789350295564
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

However, this characterization is not wholly true. We know that a large majority of contributors to science were professing Christians. Even today, according to a recent survey, approximately 40 per cent of American scientists profess belief in ‘a God to whom one may pray in expectation of receiving an answer’.271 feel Nasr should keep in mind the radical shift within Islam, from the eleventh/twelfth century onwards, both theological as well as political, a shift that was no longer conducive to independent thinking. Getting into philosophical and theological delusions will not help to displace Eurocentrism, reigning since the heydays of imperialist expansion. We have to read the next paper in JIS to find how deplorable and suicidal is the path being trodden by some Islamic scholar today.

The article, by Kaleemur Rehman, is titled ‘Preface to Islamic Science’ and begins by pronouncing most of the contributors to the Islamic Golden Age of science heretics, who were either Mu’tazilites (freethinkers) or agnostics.28 Rehman says:

Many of them studied and practiced music … Al-Razi did not believe in revelations. Farabi depended on pure reason (and not shariyah) for discriminating between good and bad. Al-Kindi denied divine attributes. Ibn-Sina did not believe in Maad jismani (resurrection of the body)… There was a gradual loss of Islamic values from the society.

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