"the latchet of whose shoes" - Roles of Islamic Phillosophy

A 2011 Tsunami Stricken Town, Northeast Japan 

Roles of Islamic Phillosophy

Islam has philosophy.  And it is still alive.

In recent studies by Muslim contemporary thinkers that aim at "renewing the impetus of philosophical thinking in Islam," Nader El-Bizri offers a critical analysis of the conventions that dominate mainstream academic and epistemic approaches in studying Islamic philosophy. These approaches, of methodology and historiography are looked at from archival standpoints within Oriental and Mediaevalist Studies, fail to recognize the fact that philosophy in Islam can still be a living intellectual tradition. He maintains that its renewal requires a radical reform in ontology and epistemology within Islamic thought.

For the Christian culture to prevail in the world, it has needed to be supported by results of fundamental studies of the Christian mind.  Even the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible to have advanced to the modern status of science and technology without cultural frameworks having been based on the Christian philosophy.

So, any future advancement of global Islamic communities need effective Islamic philosophy today.

What Muslims need is not weapons to destroy any chances for Islamic peaceful advancement but philosophy toward future.    




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Mar 1:6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Mar 1:7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.