الإسلام حياة ومقاصد

by Umar F. Abd-Allah, عمر الفاروق عبد الله, محمد سامر الست (ترجمة)

This short study introduces and evaluates the most fundamental paradox at the core of Kant's philosophy. This is the 'metacritical' problem of whether Kant's critical project is itself possible, a possibility that the same project has made it its mission to deny to traditional metaphysics. Kant himself held that his conclusions were merely the impartial result of an examination of the 'instrument' by means of which that metaphysics claims to have established its conclusions, human cognition itself. Yet did Kant see the implied need to subject his own critical philosophy to such a test, since it equally presupposes 'human cognition'?Although this problem has been deemed one of the most fundamental, and indeed critical, in all Kant's philosophy by several prominent Kant exegetes, devoted treatments of the question are extremely scarce. Drawing on Platonic philosophy and the philosophical system outlined in the author's Things As They Are (2021), the study concludes that the metacritical problem is indeed fatal to Kant's anti-metaphysical aspirations, and that this elimination of such a fundamental obstacle to the practice of traditional philosophy further opens up the real possibility of a renewed metaphysics for our time.

Genres: Religion, Islam

74 pages, ebook

Published November 1, 2012

About the author

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah (Wymann-Landgraf) is an American Muslim, born in 1948 to a Protestant family in Columbus, Nebraska. He grew up in Athens, Georgia, where both parents taught at the University of Georgia. His father taught Veterinary Medicine and Organic Chemistry, while his mother’s field was English. In 1964, his parents took positions at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where his grandfather had been a professor emeritus of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Abd-Allah did his undergraduate work at the University of Missouri with dual majors in History and English Literature. He made the Dean’s list all semesters and was nominated to the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society. In 1969, he won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and entrance to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to pursue a Ph.D. program in English literature. Shortly after coming to Cornell, Dr. Abd-Allah read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which inspired him to embrace Islam in early 1970. In 1972, he altered his field of study and transferred to the University of Chicago, where he studied Arabic and Islamic Studies under Dr. Fazlur Rahman. Dr. Abd-Allah received his doctorate with honors in 1978 for a dissertation on the origins of Islamic Law, Malik’s Concept of ‘Amal in the Light of Maliki Legal Theory. From 1977 until 1982, he taught at the Universities of Windsor (Ontario), Temple, and Michigan. In 1982, he left America to teach Arabic in Spain. Two years later, he was appointed to the Department of Islamic Studies at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, where he taught (in Arabic) Islamic studies and comparative religions until 2000.

During his years abroad, Dr. Abd-Allah had the privilege of studying with a number of traditional Islamic scholars. He returned to Chicago in August 2000 to work as chair and scholar-in-residence of the newly founded Nawawi Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation. In conjunction with this position, he is now teaching and lecturing in and around Chicago and various parts of the United States and Canada, while conducting research and writing in Islamic studies and related fields. He recently completed a biography of Mohammed Webb (d. 1916), who was one of the most significant early American converts to Islam. The book is scheduled for release Spring/Summer 2006 under the title A Muslim in Victorian America: The Story of Alexander Russell Webb (Oxford University Press). Dr. Abd-Allah is presently completing a second work entitled Roots of Islam in America: A Survey of Muslim Presence in the New World from Earliest Evidence until 1965 and is also updating his dissertation for publication.

Reviews

[أحمد الشربيني · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب صغير ، استفدت منه كتير انى عرفت حاجات عن دينى زى امور فى الفقه واختلافات الائمة ومقاصد الشريعة وشوية معلومات اعتقد لازم تكون الحد الادنى لدى الانسان المسلم من الدين :)

[Muhammad Nida · Rating 4 out of 5]

الكتاب موجَّه بالأساس للمسلمين بالخارج وخاصة في أميركا.
يناقش خمسة مبادئ عملية هي: (الوثوق بالعقل - احترام الاختلاف - تأكيد أهمية فروض الكفاية - ترتيب الأولويات - الأخذ بالقواعد الكلية) وفقًا لمقاصد الشرع الأساسيو في أسلوب سهل خال من التعقيد، ويحاول توجيه المسلمين في الخارج لإيجاد حلول للمشاكل التي تواجههم.

ربيع الآخر 1434 هـ
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[Yvonne O'Connor · Rating 4 out of 5]

*Read for a class on Islamic Studies.

This essay is a fascinating look at Islam by a current Muslim scholar, who takes a look at traditional laws and calls for a new approach.

[Hamizah Yasin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like how the author put and elaborated his points in a very simple but concise manner. The topics explored in this book are mostly something we've learned about back in school for example, but never really bothered understanding. Thus it is a very refreshing read, also due to the simple elaborative manner in which this book was written. Definitely a must read!

[Mohamed Alwakeel · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتاب مختصر موجّه في الأساس للمسلمين في أمريكا، يُلخّص الكثير من الأساسيات العقدية والتعاملية في الإسلام والتي يلزم المسلم معرفتها بالضرورة، بأسلوب بسيط وسهل وقريب جداً، وربما يلزم المسلمين العرب كذلك قراءته للتعرف على أشياء قد لا يعرفها بعضهم عن دينه :)

[عمر الخير · Rating 2 out of 5]

مش عارف ليه حسيت أن الكتاب في لوك لوك كتير غير مبرر خالص

ودا خلاني حتي ال حتت ال مهمة معرفتش استشعرها

بعدين كان مزود اوي شعوره بأهمية المسلمين الأمريكان!؟

[Mohamed Elsonpaty · Rating 5 out of 5]

للأسف نحن لا نعرف سيئا البتة عن ديننا رغم أنه أعظم منهج للإنسان.. هذا الكتيب ينبغي تدريسه.
جزى الله المؤلف عنه خيرا