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3 hour seminar | Sunday 12th Jan 2025 | 3-6pm (UK time) | £39

This seminar will present an outline of the worldview of Islam - its fundamental elements and salient features. Being derived from the statements of Revelation regarding reality and truth, elements of this worldview possess the characteristics of finality and stability, as it presents the concept of God, Man, knowledge, life, the world and happiness as interpreted in the Islamic intellectual tradition by theologians, philosophers and metaphysicians. Challenges to the interpretation of this worldview will also be discussed, both historically and in the contemporary age in the form of secularisation as a philosophical programme. The main guiding text for this seminar will be Professor Syed Naquib Al Attas' introduction in his Prolegomena to the metaphysics of Islam.
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Defining the worldview of Islām

Ru’yatul Islam lil wujūd – the vision of reality and existence according to Islām and its fundamental elements:

1. God 2. Revelation 3. Religion as Dīn 4. Knowledge 5. Nature of man and psychology of the human soul 6. The world as signs 7. Happiness 8. Freedom 9. Values and vitues

Internal challenges to the worldview of Islām and their solution

  • Internal: The vicious cycle of the corruption of knowledge, the loss of adab and the rise of false leaders

  • Loss of adab as reflected in the enmity of Iblīs towards Adam (AS)

  • The problem of levelling and rejection of authorities and its various

  • Manifestations in the history of the Muslim community - Its present manifestation and the distortion of the Islāmic worldview

  • External: Secularisation as a philosophical programme

Solutions

Recovering the meaning of Education in Islām

Education as Ta’dīb. Key terms in Islamic education: Ḥikmah (wisdom), Adab (right action), ‘Adalah (Justice), Farḍ ‘Ayn and Farḍ Kifāyah

TEACHER

Syed Muḥiyuddīn Al-ʿAṭṭās

Syed Muḥammad Muḥiyuddīn Al-ʿAṭṭās holds several regular series of talks in and around KL and Johor, on the Malay-Islamic intellectual heritage. He has taught Islamic Philosophy at the International Islamic College-University of Selangor, and lectured at ADNI Pre-University (KL) on the worldview of Islam, and Map of Knowledge. He holds a Master of Philosophy from CASIS (thesis titled 'Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas's Conception of the West'). He previously studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Presently, he is based in Tarim, Ḥadhramawt, continuing his studies in the science of the soul with scholars and spiritual masters of the blessed valley.

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