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*This paper, delivered as the first Al Fatigi Memorial Lecture at the 15th Annual Con-ference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, discusses the concept the methodology of Islamization of knowledge.
He could articulate the principles of Islam in terms of Western thought and Western vocabulary so that his audience could see the relevance and the applicability of Islam to modern times as a universal "ideology': There is little doubt that he became instrumental in changing the image of the MSA from that of being rigidly conservative to an organization with very knowledgeable and rational practitioners and advocates of Islam.
1392 AH/1972 AC) As is evident, the AMSS represented for Ismail, not merely an organization of the Muslim social scientists in North America, but the beginning of a world wide Islamic movement which, transcending the MSA itself, was aimed at introducing a new strain of social science in the world of modern academia.
This notion was so deeply ingrained in the minds of the Muslim youth in general that no sooner than one was educated in a college or a university than he or she proudly started using the language of his colonial masters at the expense of his mother tongue; showed a great sense of superiority in displaying his mastery in Western sciences, philosophy, law and literature; and dreamed of a higher education in the West.
What distinguished Isma`11, along with AbaSulayman and AMSS from others in this respect, was his knowledge of the Islamic sciences as well as his mastery of the Western social philosophy.