The issue of intellectual and civilizational decadence: an analysis of Syeikh Muhammad al-Ghazzāli’s discourse

Mohd Daud, Noor Amali (2022) The issue of intellectual and civilizational decadence: an analysis of Syeikh Muhammad al-Ghazzāli’s discourse. Jurnal Usuluddin, 50 (2). pp. 123-140. ISSN 1394-3723 E-ISSN 0128-0708

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Abstract

The issue of intellectual and civilizational backwardness ‘takhalluf’ is one of the most important issues debated in the modern Islamic discourse, especially in the early twentieth centuries. What are the factors underneath the decline of the Muslim Ummah?How it affect its present conditions?, and how to resolve the problem and bring about strategic transformation to this current situation? This article attempts to investigate the issue from Muhammad al-Ghazzālī’s scholarly insight, focusing on some of main factors deliberated by al-Ghazzālī as significant factors to Muslim decline and backwardness in the intellectual and civilizational realms. Al-Ghazzālī identified two major causes of decadence, namely internal as well external factors. Al-Ghazzālī also offers his intellectual insights on remedies for the crisis towards the betterment of Muslim nations.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Backwardness, Muhammad al-Ghazzālī, internal, external, remedies
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc > BP1 Islam B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc > BP188.16 Wasatiyyah. Moderation In Islam
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Usul al-Din and Comparative Religion
Depositing User:	Dr Noor Amali Mohd Daud
Date Deposited:	05 Jan 2023 08:14
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2023 08:16
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/102932

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