In a world in which the intellect has become synonymous with reason and intuition with a “biological” sixth sense concerned with foretelling future events, it becomes difficult to understand what intellect and intuition, these two key faculties upon which knowledge is based, can mean in the context of Islamic thought. To understand the meaning of these terms in the traditional Islamic universe ...

In the Tanzanian country town of Rwangwa, a bitter confrontation has developed between Sufi Muslims and Islamist reformers. The Islamists draw on Middle Eastern inspiration, but the conflict arises equally from local, regional and national context, and is cultural as well as religious and political. Situated in an economically and educationally disadvantaged region, access to land and trade for...

This study aims to be able understand and apply educational values ??in Muhammad Sholeh Darat's view, so that ongoing education becomes more meaningful, not capital-oriented only material-oriented. The method used in this research is descriptive-explanative research, where the author tries describe first how basic construction of Islamic epistemology, context situation behind Darat. Based on re...

this study explores how and to what extent recent developments in hermeneutical philosophy and methodology can be applied to religious studies, and particularly to questions that have a political focus. it begins from the assumption that it is possible to apply hermeneutics to interpreting the koran and religious questions. in addition, apart from relativist hermeneutics, other classical approa...

one of the most important characteristics of the eternal religion is the adaptation of its decrees with the changes of the human’s life in the transition of time. so, it is necessary for us to review the second decrees as the flexible dimensions of the decrees. according to the causes of some decrees’ change, altering the decree’s subject leads to the change of the primitive decrees into the se...