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Views and Comments Paradigms in Political Science Revisited We are at a crossroads where the time is ripe for the emerging Muslim thought to once again set the standard for universal participation and debate.
My continual argument with Mona Abul-Fadl's concept of kairos in The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, (September 1989 supplement) is whether the openness of the discourse realm is a result of what Gai Eaton describes as the process of decomposition releasing explosive gases,' where the "ripeness" is putridity, or a beneficial progress of ideas.
2See my "Paradigms and Postmodern Politics from an Islamic Perspective" presented at the same conference, December 15-17, 1989, Association of Muslim Social Scientistis and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, Virginia.
'Mona Abul-Fadl, "Paradigms in Political Science Revisited" The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1 (September, 1989), supplement, p.
As Mona Abul-Fadl points out elsewhere, the tawkidi episteme is universal without being totalizing, and therein lies the difference.
"12 Whereas the postmodern turn is a wholesale rejection of ontology, a complete shift from depth epistemology to surface hermeneutics, the tawijidi 9Mona 'Abul-Fadl "Paradigms in Political Science Revisited" The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1 (September, 1989), supplement, p.
Our task is to contribute to human thought, to remember Islam for ourselves so that we participate universally in an Islamic discourse which must never be confined to Muslims.