New Approach in Religious Studies with Special Reference to Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri
Abstract: Beginning from the
nineteenth century, Arab-Muslim
intelligentsias marched to reform their societies. Many things since then have
been carried out. They put forward various proposals, advanced numerous ideas
and concepts and established several institutions. Nevertheless, their
condition has yet improved. In some context, it even deteriorates. Triggered by
this situation, a number of Arab and
Muslim scholars then embark on a new reform project. But at this time, their
reform attempt is materialized in the form of
intellectual and cultural project. For they believe that the basic
problem and crisis beset their society lies in their understanding of turâts. Thus, unless this understanding is
corrected, no genuine reform would be able to be materialized. Muhammad ‘Abid
al-Jabiri, a Moroccan scholar, is one of
the many Arab scholars who have
taken this course. For this purpose, he constructed his own project which he
names Naqd al-‘Aql al-‘Arabi. This article specifically attempts to shed light
on conceptual apparatus and methods that he uses which this study finds to have
originated from different schools of thought of western philosophy and social sciences,
important of which is Marxism and postmodernism.
Author: Nirwan Syafrin
Journal Code: jpperadabanislamgg140008
