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)