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THE CONCEPT OF MODERNIZATION : AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC THOUGHT

the content of this issue: ~happy reading li sahabati al-ahibba' (^-^) ~

1. The western view of modernization
2. Contemporary Islamic thought on some aspect of modernization
3. The need for a Redefinition of modernization
4. The phases of Islamic modernization
   

sebagai permulaannya:
Main characteristic of contemporary Islamic thought is critical attitude toward both Islamic heritage and western ideas, concepts and theories.

Thinkers neither rejected nor blindly accepted entirely the western contribution toward knowledge like rejectionist and adoptationist.

Thinkers do not accept western ideas without critical evaluation from Islamic perspectives.

Islamic movement such as Muslim Brotherhood and Jama‘at-e-Islami as well as Islamization of knowledge movement was conceived the modernization based on Islamic epistemology.

Islamic modernization may be redefined as the process of increasing technological skills and knowledge in the physical and social sciences in order to harness the bounties and resources of the natural world on the basis of an Islamic epistemology and toward regeneration of new Islamic civilization .


The western view of modernization
Was developed during the renaissance and enlightenment(16 and 18 centuries C.E)
Became widespread beyond the borders of the west during the 19 and 20 centuries C.E.

West conceives of modernization in several ways :

1. As a process of change in the social structure and social system through an increased knowledge in science and technology
2. As a movement of transition from traditional society of religion, magic and superstition to a modern and postmodern society that is free from religious matrix.
3. As a process of mobilization, differentiation, industrialization, and secularization
4. As a process toward high economic growth, stable democracy, and a capitalist economy.
5. As a process to overcome nature and become independent of its control.
6. As a movement toward the construction of a healthy, peaceful, content and prosperous society as Europeanization, Americanization and Westernization.
   

Contemporary Islamic thought on some aspects of modernization

• Muhammad Iqbal
• Sayyid Qutb
• Abul A‘la Mawdudi
• Ismā‘il Rājī al-Fārūqī
• Naquib al-Attas

Muhammad Iqbal

Important issue in western conception of modernization is the relation of the human individual with society. Discouraged the extreme forms of individualism and collectivism demanded by modernist. Modernist contend that the faster a society modernizes, the greater an individual separates him/herself from other people, family, community and society for various reasons. He believed that individuality can only preserved within society and asserted that modernized societies are insecure, due to all kinds of violence.

He condemned the both ideologies of the west which are socialism and capitalism for their deceptiveness and failure to recognize God. Secularization is essential ingredient of modernization of the west. Critique on western concept of democracy in political modernization and argues that the intellect of 200 asses may not equal the thought of a perfect man. In Islamic perspective, ijtihad is the principle of modernization and the main causes of deterioration if Muslim’s ummah is the absence of ijtihad. Ijtihad is instrumental for balanced development and modernization.

He against the West’s ideas on reason and sense perception as the only sources of knowledge for modernization.

He emphasized the importance of revelation, intuition, and inspiration along with reason and sense perception.

He rejected of any revelation-reason and revelation-science conflicts.

Sayyid qutb

An intellectual leader of Muslim Brotherhood who argued that all modern ideologies have lost their vitality. He asserted that Muslim society is completely antithetical to the secular modernity. He argued that a civilized Islamic society does not downgrade matter, but rather considers material production to be the backbone of the vicegerency of God on Earth. Unlike qutb, western modernization views the advancement science and technology as necessary to increase material production.

He critically studied that the resurgence of science in the west was suffered from the lack of a spiritual foundation and a reviving spirit. For Qutb and Iqbal, all knowledge ultimately comes from God. Qutb recommends strongly that Islamic leadership should be well balanced between science and technology and Islamic values in order to be more constructive and dynamic. As Iqbal,he agreed that technologization and industrilization are the important aspects of modernization by rejected the secularization and westernization.

~fuhh..! it needs a lot of patient to read & understand all of this (-.-) byk gunakan akal jd student comparative religions/usuluddin ni~

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