Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language

Rafii, Raha

doi:10.1215/01903659-10472331

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“…This strategy dismantles dualistic knowledge frameworks, such as reason against imagination, history against myth, right against wrong, good against evil, and reason against revelation. 61 Referring to the above understanding confirms that our worldview and values are shaped by cultural influences, historical changes, and the language used in communication. Therefore, to truly understand a concept or thought, it is essential to understand the historical context and language that accompanies it.…”

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Universalism of Islamic Scholarly Tradition: New Directions for Islamic Studies

Siregar,

Rangkuti

2023

Islam Transformatif

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AbstractThe universalism of the Islamic scholarly tradition is seen as one of the keys in responding to some challenges and opportunities that come along with an increasingly connected modernity. This research examines the evolution of Islamic thought from a period of disintegration to integration and underscores the importance of the universalist approach in uniting different schools and views within the Islamic world. The type of research used in this study is library research using a paradigmatic philosophical-historical analysis approach. The research combines three approaches: philosophical, historical, and paradigmatic analysis. In this context, philosophical analysis explores concepts related to universalism in Islam. The data in this research were obtained through a literature study. Researchers are involved in in-depth reading several books, papers, articles, and classical texts relevant to the past understandings of universalism. These data are also used for perspective enrichment. The results of this study show the originality of tradition and modernity as historical roots and a foothold departing from the discussion of universalism of the Islamic scientific tradition. In addition, the results of this study also emphasize three methods of approach to produce universalism of the scientific tradition, namely: ideological criticism, historical analysis, and structural analysis. Universalisme tradisi keilmuan Islam dipandang sebagai salah satu kunci untuk menanggapi tantangan dan peluang yang datang bersama dengan modernitas yang semakin terhubung. Penelitian ini membahas tentang evolusi pemikiran Islam dari periode disintegrasi ke integrasi dan menggarisbawahi pentingnya pendekatan universalisme dalam menyatukan berbagai aliran dan pandangan di dunia Islam. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian kepustakaan (library research) dengan menggunakan pendekatan analisis filosofis-historis paradigmatik. Penelitian ini menggabungkan tiga pendekatan: analisis filosofis, historis, dan paradigmatik. Dalam konteks ini, ketiga pendekatan tersebut dipergunakan untuk mengeksplorasi konsep-konsep yang berkaitan dengan universalisme dalam Islam. Data dalam penelitian ini diperoleh melalui studi pustaka, yang melibatkan pengumpulan buku, makalah, artikel, dan teks klasik yang relevan dengan topik penelitian yang mencerminkan pemahaman masa lalu tentang universalisme, juga digunakan untuk pengayaan perspektif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan orisinalitas tradisi dan modernitas sebagai akar sejarah dan pijakan berangkat dari pembahasan universalisme tradisi ilmiah Islam. Selain itu, hasil penelitian ini juga menekankan tiga metode pendekatan untuk menghasilkan universalisme tradisi ilmiah, yaitu: kritik ideologis, analisis sejarah, dan analisis struktural.

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Section: Historical Analysismentioning

confidence: 71%

Universalism of Islamic Scholarly Tradition: New Directions for Islamic Studies

Siregar,

Rangkuti

2023

Islam Transformatif

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Afterword: Motions of global periodization

Lomuto

2024

Postmedieval

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I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth. I was never attracted to paradises flowing with milk and honey, but I envied Hansel and Gretel their gingerbread house: if only the universe we inhabit were completely edible, I used to think, what power we would have over it! (de Beauvoir 1959, 7)The seductive promise of the 'global' is an illusion: a sphere can never be seen in its entirety at once, not without distortion. In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir (1959) writes about herself as a child who eventually realizes she is not the center or the whole of existence. She tries to devour the world, to absorb the outside into her self-constitution. Confronted with a world whose bounds exceed the reaches of even what she can expand her mouth to consume, she fills her childhood with cry

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What Is “Postmedieval”? Embedded Reflections

Orlemanski

2023

Boundary 2

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This essay explores the issue's topic, “The ‘Medieval’ Undone: Imagining a New Global Past,” by asking what it has meant, and what it could yet mean, to be postmedieval. It does so by telling a specific institutional history, that of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, which launched in 2010 and continues to the present. The article adopts a decidedly embedded perspective, from the point of view of a current coeditor of postmedieval, previously an author and book reviews editor. Ultimately, the article argues that postmedieval's attachment to the “medieval” works to keep its readers in conflicted contact with the Eurocentrism, global flows of capital, dominance of English, and politics of time that cannot be escaped merely through critique or shifts in representation.

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Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language

Cited by 3 publications

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Universalism of Islamic Scholarly Tradition: New Directions for Islamic Studies

Universalism of Islamic Scholarly Tradition: New Directions for Islamic Studies

Afterword: Motions of global periodization

What Is “Postmedieval”? Embedded Reflections

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