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What does it mean to be an Islamic movement today?

What does it mean to be an Islamic movement today?

Posted by | Apr 28, 2019 | ,

A series of 8 videos of a lecture in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada, on Strategic Thoughts for Islamic Movements today. The lecture was titled: What does it mean to be an Islamic movement today? And the questions that were addressed in the Q and A sessions were: – Why is it strategically important to revise Usul Al-Fiqh? – Do you live in a “non-Muslim country” in Canada? – How to overcome resisting renewal by the Muslim public? – Why are other communities ahead of Canadian Muslims? – Can we dialogue or collaborate with seculars? – Is Islamic thought trying to appease our...

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The methodological problems in contemporary Islamic thought- University of Indonesia

The methodological problems in contemporary Islamic thought- University of Indonesia

Posted by | Mar 27, 2019 | ,

University of Indonesia (in Arabic, with Bahasa Indonesia translation) – on the methodological problems in contemporary Islamic thought: Partialistic approaches (with examples from current approaches to Islamic economics), apologetic approaches (with examples on how modernist and post-modernist approaches are forced into the reading of the Quran and Sunnah without justification), and generalistic approaches (with examples on how the maqasid theories are sometimes mis-used to justify deviation from the Shariah itself). Then, an outline of a comprehensive integrative approach based on the Quran and Sunnah, via a renewed reading....

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