The Neo-Ghazalian, Attasian Perspective

"The Neo-Ghazalian, Attasian project in the late twentieth-century, however long the Muslim world might have taken in producing it, represents a blueprint for a philosophical dimension of not only tahafut - deconstruction, but also tajdid - renaissance. This renaissance does not surrender to 'modernity' or reject it utterly; but understands it, confirms its positive aspects and rejects its excesses - just as al-Ghazali did in his engagement with the philosophical foundations of Avicennian/ Aristotelian worldview. With that paradigm well and truly established, change in the Muslim world need not be negotiated by means of Western notions of modernity - but in a way that ultimately transcends them. For this, the ummah should be grateful to Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas." - M. Afifi al-Akiti and H.A HellyerThe Negotiation of Modernity Through Tradition In Contemporary Muslim Intellectual Discourse: The Neo-Ghazalian, Attasian PerspectiveSource: Himpunan Keilmuan Muslim (HAKIM)

Dr. Syed Ali Tawfik Al-Attas: Sejarah Ringkas Ilmu Mantiq

Setiap manusia telah diberikan keupayaan berfikir yang berkembang sejajar dengan pertumbuhan jasmani dan akali. Keupayaan berfikir ini mempunyai berbagai bentuk bergantung kepada tahap-tahap pertumbuhan yang berlainan. Pemikiran seseorang dibentuk oleh persekitarannya dan ini dapat dilihat pada rupa bentuk dan kaedah yang tertentu. Dengan kesungguhan seseorang berupaya membina pemikirannya menjadi matang dan bernas sehingga mengatasi pemikiran terdahulu. Semua itu hanya berlaku melalui pentaakulan dan penghujahan.

Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam: An Exposition of the Fundamental Elements of the Worldview of Islam

This is a very important book. No book of its kind, in profundity as well as magnitude of scope and comprehensive grasp of modern intellectual challenges facing the contemporary Muslim World, appeared in the last century. The book deals with the fundamental question of the nature of ‘worldview’ according to Islam—a question that has never really been raised in our time. The author proposes that the nature of the worldview of Islam is not merely the mind’s view of the physical world and of man’s historical, social, political and cultural involvement in it, as has been misunderstood in the minds of secular, contemporary Muslim scholars generally, and particularly those preoccupied with the social and political sciences, but it should bear upon the Muslims’ ideas about ‘change’, ‘development’, and ‘progress’.

The fundamental elements of the worldview of Islam, together with the key terms and concepts that they unfold, are elaborated in detail in this book.
Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam, Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas