A Critique of Modernity: The State and its Forms of Knowledge | Lecture 6

Professor Hallaq & Ovamir Anjum built upon The Impossible State (2013), Restating Orientalism (2108), and Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha (2019).

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the only comment here .....from Algeria thank you Mr Hallaq

[@shuaibmohammedc]

Good sessions, Uvamir Anjum was a good option as an interlocutor for Hallaq.

[@leebarry5686]

Modernity is not totally abandoned in modern Islamic philosophy, but digested and absorbed of the the good thing which is supposed to be a part of Islam and which has been neglected and lost by scholarship due to obsession with Sufi epistemology and methodology!

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Is it possible to find a written transcript or text version of this lecture?

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His ideas are summarized in books such as: The Impossible State (2013), Restating Orientalism (2108), and Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha (2019). Arab American Christians have good efforts, such as Dr. George Saliba, Dr. Joseph Massad, Dr. Wael Hallaq, and Dr. Edward Said. Especially treating the problems of Orientalism and bias against Islam.

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how can new platonism influence islam whuch is perfect from the very beginning. scholar are confused by the western way of thinking. modernity needs to be defined by muslim scholars .