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Islamska misao pred izazovima 21. stoljeća
Islamic thought facing challenges of the 21st century

Author(s): Rešid Hafizović
Subject(s): History of Islam, Contemporary Islamic Thought, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Islamic thought facing challenges of the 21st century; religion;

Summary/Abstract: In the 21st century, Muhammad’s, s. a. w. s. Ummah is struck by severe outer and inner challenges, the latest being a new form of American-Israeli imperialism which threatens the world peace, modern civilization, and the ‘Muslim world’ as such. Second challenge is the harmful influence of the Western European epistemic imperialism that deleted, from the Muslim memory the remembrance of the most luxurious intellectual heritage from the ‘golden age’ of the thinking Islam and set up a regime of producing ‘knowledge of endosmosis’ which it isn’t, as it is useless and without a purpose. The third challenge are multiple and deep divisioms in the ‘Muslim world’ of the doctrinal, juridical, sectarian and ideological nature. They are a serious threat on the path to achieveing pan-Muslim unity on the principles of the original Ummah. But, perhaps the most serious challenge before the Muslim world of today is the complete reinterpretation of the tradition of belief and tradition of thinking of today’s muslims. A requirement without which it is impossible to make is a serious reform in the domain of Islamic upbringing and education which in itself is the challenge of all challenges in regard to the existing state of affairs in the indicated domains of Muslim epistemic and ethically-moral culture of ascension.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2025
  • Issue No: 103-104
  • Page Range: 11-23
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bosnian
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