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Islamization as a Force of Global Cultural Renewal or: The Relevance of the Tawhidi‘ Episteme to Modernity Mona Abul-Fadl Islamization constitutes a major force of renovation upon the contemporary world scene.
The field of such scholarship must necessarily impinge on some of the following issue-areas: the implications of culture for civilization, the centrality of the episterne to both, and the principal characteristics of the Islamic mode of knowing and its effective consequences.
Historically, of all the Traditions rooted in a Divine Message, Islam constitutes the only such Tradition where the channels of transmission have retained their integrity and where the sources remain accessible to an informed human endeavor and a reformed understanding.
The channeling and reorientation here may be seen to have essentially sprung out of the human element to in the history of religion” and attributed it to the “religious impulse” which he qualified as “still the most vital and enduring”; quoted in Abul~Fazl Ezzati, An Introduction to the History of the Spread of Islam (London, 1978) which itself constitutes a commendable work in an emerging corpus of Muslim scholarship in a field where much remains to be done.
In the Islamic paradigm of knowledge, the human intellect interacts within a cognitive setting which takes this integral Transcendental Source for its starting point and pivotal center.
Rather, the median culture, rooted in the tawlfldi paradigm of knowledge and deriving its elements from the transcendental sources, provides a stable integral core which serves in itself as a point of departure and a referent for defining and qualifying other positions, and not the reverse.