The most impressive monument to Muslim engineering in the Western world the Alhambra towers over Granada in southern Spain. Discover how it was built and why.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (born September 5, 1931) is a prominent contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and who is equally competent in theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history, and literature. He is considered to be the pioneer in proposing the idea of Islamization of Knowledge. Al-Attas' philosophy and methodology of education have one goal: Islamization of the mind, body and soul and its effects on the personal and collective life on Muslims as well as others, including the spiritual and physical non-human environment.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Al Ghazali - The Alchemist of Happiness
Exploring the life and impact of the greatest spiritual and legal philosopher in Islamic history, this film examines Ghazali's existential crisis of faith that arose from his rejection of religious dogmatism, and reveals profound parallels with our own times. Ghazali became known as the Proof of Islam and his path of love and spiritual excellence overcame the pitfalls of the organised religion of his day. His path was largely abandoned by early 20th century Muslim reformers for the more strident and less tolerant school of Ibn Taymiyya. Combining drama with documentary, this film argues that Ghazali's Islam is the antidote for today's terror.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas: An Introduction by Claude Alvares
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas is one of the towering intellectual giants of our era, one who has written consistently, wisely, uncompromisingly and well on the Islamic understanding of knowledge. That is why this particular chapter from his book, Islam and Secularism, has been selected for this Multiversity series. Not only does it lay out in succinct fashion the distinct and separate Western and Islamic approaches to knowledge, it also goes on to outline the overall scheme of knowledge acquisition that should inform education in Muslim societies – or Muslim institutions of learning in plural societies – in today’s world.
Prof. Al-Attas has remained one of the most impressive scholars of Islam and of the Islamization of contemporary knowledge. He was associated with the founding of several universities including the National University of Malaysia as well as the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC). His biography is impossible to summarize in a few words. A detailed account is available at Wikipedia.
Prof. Al-Attas has remained one of the most impressive scholars of Islam and of the Islamization of contemporary knowledge. He was associated with the founding of several universities including the National University of Malaysia as well as the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC). His biography is impossible to summarize in a few words. A detailed account is available at Wikipedia.
Documentary: When Muslims Ruled Europe
An insightful documentary into the prosperity Islam engendered in Europe during its glorious reign there.
Friday, February 4, 2011
PBS: Islam: Empire of Faith - The Awakening
This documentary is about the Awakening of the world under Islam - the advancements and discoveries credited to Islam as a system that ran society.
Kisah langsung dari Prof. Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
Q: Boleh Prof. ceritakan sedikit bagaimana ISTAC ini dibina?
The Significance of Imam al-Ghazālī's Works
Part 1: Who was Imam al-Ghazali?
1. Imam Al Ghazali is Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, abu Hamid Hujjat al-Islam al Ghazali al Tusi, The Shafi'i Imam, Proof of Islam, and sufi adept born in Tabiran, near Tus ( just north of the present day Mashhad, Iran), in 450/1058. The imam of his time, nicknamed Shafi'i the second for his legal viruousity, he was a brilliant intellectual who first studied jurisprudence at Tus, and then traveled the Islamic world to Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Mecca and Medina, taking sacred knowledge from its masters, among them the imam of the two sanctuaries Juwayni, with whom he studied until the imams death, becoming at his hands a scholar in Shafi'i law, logic, tenets of faith, debate, and in the rationalistic doctrines of the philosophical schools of his time, which he later was called upon to refute. When Juwayni died, Ghazali debated the Imams and scholars of Baghdad in the presence of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, who was so impressed that he appointed him to a teaching post at the Nizamiyya Academy in Baghdad, where word of his brilliance spread, and scholars journeyed to hear him.
2. He was known as "the Proof of Islam" (Hujja al-Islam), "Ornament of the Faith," "Gatherer of the Multifarious Sciences," "Great Siddîq," absolute mujtahid, a major Shafi'i jurist, heresiographer and debater, expert in the principles of doctrine and those of jurisprudence.
1. Imam Al Ghazali is Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, abu Hamid Hujjat al-Islam al Ghazali al Tusi, The Shafi'i Imam, Proof of Islam, and sufi adept born in Tabiran, near Tus ( just north of the present day Mashhad, Iran), in 450/1058. The imam of his time, nicknamed Shafi'i the second for his legal viruousity, he was a brilliant intellectual who first studied jurisprudence at Tus, and then traveled the Islamic world to Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Mecca and Medina, taking sacred knowledge from its masters, among them the imam of the two sanctuaries Juwayni, with whom he studied until the imams death, becoming at his hands a scholar in Shafi'i law, logic, tenets of faith, debate, and in the rationalistic doctrines of the philosophical schools of his time, which he later was called upon to refute. When Juwayni died, Ghazali debated the Imams and scholars of Baghdad in the presence of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, who was so impressed that he appointed him to a teaching post at the Nizamiyya Academy in Baghdad, where word of his brilliance spread, and scholars journeyed to hear him.
2. He was known as "the Proof of Islam" (Hujja al-Islam), "Ornament of the Faith," "Gatherer of the Multifarious Sciences," "Great Siddîq," absolute mujtahid, a major Shafi'i jurist, heresiographer and debater, expert in the principles of doctrine and those of jurisprudence.
Islam and Secularism - Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
"This book was originally dedicated to the emergent Muslim, for whose hearing and understanding it was indeed meant, in the hope that they would intelligently prepared, when their times come, to weather with discernment the pestilential winds of secularization and with courage to create necessary changes in the realm of our thinking that is still floundering in the sea of bewilderment and self-doubt." - Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam & Secularim (1993)
Al-Attas - Islam and Secularism
Written more than twenty years ago, this book is one of the most creative and original works of a Muslim thinker in the contemporary Muslim world.
Al-Attas - Islam and Secularism
Written more than twenty years ago, this book is one of the most creative and original works of a Muslim thinker in the contemporary Muslim world.
Instruction of the Student (the Method of Learning), By Imam Zarnuji
This is a remarkable volume that touches upon the method by which students of the classical Muslim world learned their studies in a traditional way. Its author, Imam al-Zarnuji, has attracted the attention of Western men of learning for centuries, as they tried to decipher the secret behind the stunning educational success of Islamic civilization.
"This book should be a starting point for the revival of the Islamic intellectual tradition that has always been the preamble to Islamic Renaissance," writes Hamza Yusuf in his foreword to the book.
Ta'lim Muta'alim
"This book should be a starting point for the revival of the Islamic intellectual tradition that has always been the preamble to Islamic Renaissance," writes Hamza Yusuf in his foreword to the book.
Ta'lim Muta'alim
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