Contemporary Islamic philosophy

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Contemporary

• Nietzsche (who he called 'the Wise Man of Europe') has led later Muslim scholars to criticise him for advocating dangerous ideals that, according to them, have eventually formed in certain strains of pan-Islamism. Some claim that the Four Pillars of the Green Party
  honor Iqbal and Islamic traditions.
• Ayyub Khan
  , and led to his eventual exile in the United States.
• Qur'an, the advancement of Islamic learning
  , and to the dissemination of Islamic teachings in the Western world.
• Syed Zafarul Hasan was a prominent twentieth-century Muslim philosopher. From 1924 to 1945 he was professor of philosophy at the Muslim University, Aligarh – where he also served as chairman of the Department of Philosophy and dean of the Faculty of Arts. There, in 1939, he put forward the 'Aligarh Scheme'. From 1945 until the partition of the sub-continent, Dr Hasan was emeritus professor at Aligarh. Dr. Zafarul Hasan was born on 14 February 1885. He died on 19 June 1949.
• M. A. Muqtedar Khan is a professor of Islam and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is a prominent Muslim intellectual and philosopher and commentator on Islamic Thought and Global Politics. He organized the first contemporary Islamic Philosophers conference at Georgetown University in 1998. His work is on the subject of the philosophy of identity and rationality, Ijtihad, Islam and democracy and Islamic reform.
• Prince Charles and met with President George W. Bush on Islam. His numerous books, films and documentaries have won awards. His books have been translated into many languages including Chinese and Indonesian
  . Ahmed is "the world's leading authority on contemporary Islam" according to the BBC.
• Jamaat-e-Islami, he has extended the work of his tutor, Amin Ahsan Islahi
  . He is frequently labeled a modernist for his insistence on the historical contextualization of Muhammad's revelation in order to grasp its true moral import.
• Muslim World and the West, basing his views on Classical Islamic governance's similarity to Western governance models in terms of religious freedoms and democratic inclination. Abdul Rauf is a highly visible American-Egyptian Imam at New York's Masjid al-Farah in addition to being Founder and Chairman of Cordoba Initiative
  , a non-profit organization seeking to bridge the divide between the Muslim world and the West.

• Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas is a Malaysian philosopher.
• Syed Abul A'la Maududi He was a Pakistani philosopher.
• Wahiduddin Khan was an Indian Islamic scholar and philosopher. He founded Centre for Peace and Spirituality (CPS). He wrote wrote over 200 books on several aspects of Islam and established the Centre for Peace and Spirituality to promote interfaith dialogue. He openly spoke on Islam and politics, peace and interfaith relationship, political status quo-ism, existence of God, and Tazkia & Sufism. He has over 200 books on his name on several topics including, islamic philosophy, politics, Quran and coexistence in multi-ethnic society.

Europe

• Shabbir Akhtar is a British Muslim philosopher, poet, researcher, writer and multilingual scholar. He is currently on the Faculty of Theology and Religions at University of Oxford. This Cambridge-trained thinker is trying to revive the tradition of Sunni Islamic philosophy, defunct since Ibn Khaldun, against the background of western analytical philosophical method. His major treatise is The Quran and the Secular Mind (2007). Akhtar argues that, unlike Christianity, Islam as a juridical monotheism, has no interest in theology, the speculative inquiry into God's nature and essence. Muslims need to know only the moral and legal will of God. Moreover, Akhtar claims that the exegesis of the scripture should be classified as part of the analytical philosophy of Islam.

Shia World

• Tehran University. Motahhari is considered important for developing the ideologies of the Islamic Republic. He wrote on exegesis of the Qur'an, philosophy, ethics, sociology, history and many other subjects. In all his writings the real object he had in view was to give replies to the objections raised by others against Islam, to prove the shortcomings of other schools of thought and to manifest the greatness of Islam. He believed that in order to prove the falsity of Marxism
  and other ideologies like it, it was necessary not only to comment on them in a scholarly manner but also to present the real image of Islam.
• Mashhad University. He was one of the most influential figures in the Islamic world in the 20th century. He attempted to explain and provide solutions for the problems faced by Muslim societies through traditional Islamic principles interwoven with and understood from the point of view of modern sociology and philosophy. Shariati was also deeply influenced by Mowlana and Muhammad Iqbal
  .
• Allameh Tabatabaei. As Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr said: "his great political influence and fame was enough for people to not consider his philosophical attitude, although he was a well-trained follower of long living intellectual tradition of Islamic Philosophy". One of his famous writings is a long introduction for the Arabic translation of Henry Corbin
  's History of Islamic Philosophy.
• sacred traditions and sacred science. His environmental philosophy is expressed in terms of Islamic environmentalism and the resacralization of nature
  .
• Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was an Iraqi Shi'a cleric, a philosopher, and ideological founder of Islamic Dawa Party born in al-Kazimiya, Iraq. Mohammad Baqir Al-Sadr's political philosophy, known as Wilayat Al-Umma (Governance of the people), set out his view of a modern-day Islamic state. His most famous philosophical works include: Falsafatuna (Our Philosophy), in which he refutes modern Western philosophical schools and asserts an Islamic view, Iqtisaduna (Our Economy), consisting of an exegesis of Islamic economics coupled with a critique of Western political economy as manifested in the Soviet Union on one hand and the United States on the other, and Al-Usus al-Mantiqiyyah lil-Istiqra' (The Logical Basis of Induction) in which he develops a theory which allows one to reach certainty through inductive methods.

Arab world

• early Muslim philosophy with modern sciences, resulting in, for example, Islamic economics and Islamic sociology
  .
• Heidegger
  and the reception of Heideggerian thought in the Islamicate world.
• Ibn Rushd.^[2][3] Various academic endeavors on his part have received UNESCO
  support in the past.
• Taha Abdurrahman is a Moroccan philosopher known for his formulation of an Islamic form of modernity.
• Hassan Hanafi, leading modern Islamic thinker, a philosopher and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Cairo.

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