Islam - The future civilization of mankind: Challenges and responses
Ongoing bloodsheds and conflicts witnessed by most of today's worlds population despite their racial, social, cultural, political, and religious differences, on the one hand, and the developments in sciences, industry, infrastructure, arts and especially in information technology, on the othe...
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Journal of Education and Social Science (JESOC)
2016
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/52825/1/DrFatmirShehu-PublishedArticle-JESOC5_21-2016.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/52825/ http://jesoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JESOC5_21.pdf |
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| Summary: | Ongoing bloodsheds and conflicts witnessed by most of today's worlds population despite their racial, social, cultural, political,
and religious differences, on the one hand, and the developments in sciences, industry, infrastructure, arts and especially in
information technology, on the other, are believed to be the real challenges encountered by contemporary people and especially
the Muslims. What are the causes of these challenges? Do they have intellectual, economic, political or social dimension? How
to respond to them? Who is responsible for the cause of these challenges – man or God? Islam with its sources of knowledge –
Qur’an and Sunnah, claims to provide for Muslims and humanity as a whole the proper measures to respond to contemporary
challenges. Definitely, Islam offers to humanity an enduring and authentic civilization with a transcendental nature that
promotes holistic justice, peaceful coexistence, mutual respect and better understanding. The thrust of this study is on four main
contemporary challenges witnessed especially by Muslims, i.e., the intellectual, economic, political and social and how to
respond to them. The main objectives of this study are to exhibit the role of Islamic civilization in responding to contemporary
challenges and to show its unique paradigm shift in shaping the future civilization of mankind. The descriptive and analytical
methods will be employed in the entire study. The author of this paper strongly believes that this study will contribute to the
revival of Muslims’ understanding of Islamic civilization and its application to their day-to-day individual, familial, communal,
and social aspects of life. Besides, it will add a new asset of knowledge to the existing knowledge and will be a reference for
young students, intellectuals, scholars, leaders, governors, and researchers. |
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