Pub Date : 2019-12-30DOI: 10.22452/katha.vol15no1.5
Fauzi Naeim
For this article, the author attempts to describe the metaphysics of nothingness from three sources; Martin Heidegger, Ibn ‘Arabi and Nagarjuna. Each of the philosophers engages the intimation of ‘the nothing’ to fathom the existential question of being, reality and logic. The idea for the article was influenced by Heidegger's seminal text “What is Metaphysic?” (1929/1998). Heidegger writes how human “a being held out into the nothing.” Why and how is human holding out into the nothingness? What are the boundaries that form this nothingness? Rather than risk into pessimistic existentialism, the author pursues the question of nihilism in the nothingness with the kind of joy, as Heidegger would say it: “Secret alliance with the cheerfulness and gentleness of creative longing.” With three different thinkers from different eras – Heidegger was a German philosopher but brought up with Christian teachings, Ibn ‘Arabi was an Andalusian Islamic Sufi whereas Nagarjuna was an Indian-Buddhist teacher – it is hoped that the idea about nothingness can be grappled and if not, be meditated upon.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.22452/katha.vol14no1.1
Bachar Bakour
No doubt that the present fluctuating relation between Islam and the West is, and has always been, coloured by earlier encounters, (the spread of Islam, the Crusades, the Reconquista of Spain, the Inquisitions, to name a few). This article readdresses Islam-West relation by examining the fundamental underpinnings of the clash theory as delineated by Bernard Lewis in “The Roots of Muslim Rage” and Samuel Huntington in “The Clash of Civilizations.” Though Lewis laid the foundation of civilizational conflict, it was Huntington who later fashioned and set the parameters of this conflict. The article also attempts to forge the idea of mutual understanding and dialogue by way of building bridges of scholarship, knowledge, respect and co-operation between people within this global village. To achieve this goal, the article highlights seven principles of the Islamic perspective of dialogue, drawing practical precedence from Islamic history, particularly from the Prophetic as well as the rightly-guided Caliphs' era.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.22452/katha.vol14no1.3
Ummi Kamila Mior Ahmad Ramdzan, A. Azmi
Sīrah Nabawiyyah has been the most widely used name for the traditional account of life and background of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH). In the ninth century, Islamic literature and biographies of the Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) were actively developed as a reflection on the needs of the Muslim community. Among the famous of the extant texts composed in the medieval Islamic genre is Sīrah Nabawiyyah by Ibn Hishām (d. 218/833 or 213/828) who rests mainly on his selection from the work of Ibn Isḥāq and Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230/845) who compiled it from the works of his predecessors, especially al-Wāqidī and al-Kalbī. There are some studies conducted by Muslim and western scholars on the background of Ibn Hishām and Ibn Saʿd‘s works. However, the differences in the approach of writing Sīrah Nabawiyyah between them are hardly found. Thus, the present study aims to explore the style or pattern of historical approach applied by these two scholars on the biography of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH). The study is qualitative, in which the researcher employed descriptive, comparative and source-critical approaches where it analyses and extracts the approach used by the authors in writing Sīrah Nabawiyyah . The study in its finding infers that there are two opposing patterns of historical approach employed by Ibn Hishām and Ibn Saʿd in writing Sīrah Nabawiyyah .
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.22452/katha.vol14no1.2
Salahuddin Mohd. Shamsuddin, Mohammad Zaki Abd Rahman, M. Pa
Ibn ʿArabī believes that the cosmic symptoms or fact of the facts is one of the manifestations of the mediator between the divine and the world. Its mediation means that it represents the contents of old divine knowledge. The science is a fact in the psychology related to the nonexistent and existent. The fact of the facts or the total truth is the sum of the facts that constitute the divine science. The science belongs to both: The nonexistent and existent. Ibn ʿArabī is in the favor of idealistic philosophy of Plato: “Everything has created on the image of its essence, the essences of things are prior to their existence”, i.e., it was in the divine knowledge when it was in the nothingness. Thus Ibn ʿArabī avoids the presence of any existent had its real existence before being in the divine knowledge. The total fact of the facts cannot be labeled by “the possible”, as it is understood that the total fact of the facts do not accept the real existence, which can be acceptable to the possible, although it is possible for the total fact to appear in the features of real existence as it is in the reality.
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