THE ISLAMIC WORLDVIEW IN THE 20th CENTURY SUBCONTINENT AND THE EFFECTS OF SIR SYED AND IQBAL ON IT
Abstract
In the 20th century, the Western episteme became dominant at a
global level and the perspective that was developed by the West, owed to its
recent century’s development in knowledge, regarding God, the human
being, and universe and was on one hand the cause of an annihilation of the
traditional / orthodox perspectives, and on the other hand a reason to create
an ideological turmoil in the rest of the world. Consequently, not only did
the West became an ideal in matters of advancement in science and
technology, but the Western epistemological theory, rationalism and
empiricism, became the sole measure of all realities, including religious
dogmas. In colonial subjugation Sir Syed’s episteme appeared, on the one
hand, in a scenario where there are is a skepticism of the Muslim mind about
its own tradition and on other hand, there is an alarming ignorance about the
destructiveness of western civilization and the hollowness of the modern
knowledge structure. This is the context where comes Iqbal, who not only
have a deep sense of the grandeur of his civilization but also a thorough
understanding of the dangers of the modern intellectual enterprie. This
article intends to explore the constituent facets of the Muslim worldview in
the contemporary world and in this context presents a comparative analysis
of the thoughts of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Rasheed Arshad, Awais Shoukat. (2018) بیسویں صدی میں اسلامی عالمی جائزہ موضوعات اور سرسید کے تاثیرات اور آئی ٹیبل آن اس پر, Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 38, Issue 1.
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