Mind the gap: Khilafah fil-Arḍ as an Islamic sustainable human development paradigm

Ismail, Norbani (2021) Mind the gap: Khilafah fil-Arḍ as an Islamic sustainable human development paradigm. Al-Itqan Journal, 5 (Special Issue 3). pp. 193-215. E-ISSN 2600-8432

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Abstract

This paper explores the interdisciplinary approach of bridging the secular understanding of United Nation‘s Sustainable Human Development (UN SDGs) with the Islamic perspective of Tawhīd. This paper showcases the duality between the physical and the metaphysical understanding of sustainable human development for Muslim societies: employing the concept of Khilāfah as an act to progress societal development, while answering Islamic duties as a vicegerent of God. In many instances, Muslim women are internalizing the concept of Khilāfah as an emancipatory tool of reclamation against the normative understanding of agency as understood in liberal feminist politics. Filling the gap of the secularistic UN‘s SDGs require a rereading of world history, and urges the deconstruction of what sustainable human development ought to be for Muslim societies.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sustainable Development, khilāfah, amānah, modernity, maṣlaḥah
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Fundamental and Inter-Disciplinary Studies (Effective: 5th Feb 2014)
Depositing User:	Dr Norbani Binti Ismail
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2022 12:41
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2022 12:41
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/96548

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