Theosophical elements in Iqbal's Magnum Opus "the reconstruction of religious thought in Islam": a preliminary review
This article reviews the phenomenon of New Atheism and its connection to the sociocultural changes of the twenty first century as well as influences brought by the advent of the information age, especially on the millennial generations. The study argues that the New Atheism was a movement that be...
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IIUM Press
2022
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/99808/2/99808_Theosophical%20elements%20in%20Iqbal%27s%20Magnum%20Opus.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/99808/ https://journals.iium.edu.my/al-itqan/index.php/al-itqan/article/view/237 |
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| Summary: | This article reviews the phenomenon of New Atheism and its connection to the
sociocultural changes of the twenty first century as well as influences brought
by the advent of the information age, especially on the millennial generations.
The study argues that the New Atheism was a movement that became part of a
world-wide social engineering project referred to by some as the second
renaissance. The modern renaissance has identifiable markers similar to the
European colonization missions around the world in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Although, at the heart of this project is an explicit rejection
of a supernatural entity, embedded within it is a tacit rejection of belief in all
things in favor of a more empirical approach seated in evidence-based outcomes
especially in the area of ethics. The paper argues that the culmination of this
project, that is, negation of belief in God or a God-like entity proposed by New
Atheism is no longer limited to atheism but has now become a general
disposition of indifference to the metaphysical realm. The research further
argues that a proposition to eliminate belief from the human ethos entails
eliminating the faculty of belief itself which is much more destructive to social
and ethical foundations of humanity and its area of influence is far greater than
just religion. This study is a library-based research and it employs qualitative
analysis. Methodology used is based on descriptive, comparative, evaluative
and critical analysis from Islamic and Western perspectives. |
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