http://www.ismailfaruqi.com Official website of Dr. Ismail Raji' Al-Faruqi (1921 - 1986) Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:14:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-problem-israel-zionism-religion/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-problem-israel-zionism-religion/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:30:08 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=222 Shulhan Arukh, which dominated Jewish observance and living since its codification by Joseph Karo in 1567. The whole problem of "religion and modernity" did not occupy them at all. The Zionists were men and women nursed culturally and spiritually by a secular Europe which has been weaned away from religion. They were as immersed in romanticism and secularism as their fellow Christians; and a number of them were in fact leaders of the movement in Europe. It was therefore natural that, once renewed persecution blocked their self-identification as European, the Jews would seek their identity in their tradition, and that they would do so under the only categories they knew, namely, those of European romanticism.]]> http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-problem-israel-zionism-religion/feed/ 1 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-problem-israel-jewish-universalism-ethnocentrism/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-problem-israel-jewish-universalism-ethnocentrism/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:45:35 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=220 kufr, or unbelief.]]> http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-problem-israel-jewish-universalism-ethnocentrism/feed/ 0 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/on-the-nature-of-islamic-dawah/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/on-the-nature-of-islamic-dawah/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:52:28 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=205 subhanahu wa ta'ala, has commanded the Muslim: "Call men unto the path of your Lord by wisdom and goodly counsel. Present the cause to them through argument yet more sound" (Qur'an 16: 125). Da'wah is the fulfilment of this commandment "to call men unto the path of Allah." Besides, it is the effort by the Muslim to enable other men to share and benefit from the supreme vision, the religious truth, which he has appropriated. In this respect it is rationally necessary, for truth wants to be known. It exerts pressure on the knower to share his vision of it with his peers. Since religious truth is not only theoretical, but also axiological and practical, the man of religion is doubly urged to take his discovery to other men. His piety, his virtue and charity impose upon him the obligation to make common the good which has befallen him.]]> http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/on-the-nature-of-islamic-dawah/feed/ 5 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/obituary/the-ismail-faruqi-award-presentation-ceremony/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/obituary/the-ismail-faruqi-award-presentation-ceremony/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:32:36 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=189 al-marhum Professor Ismail Raji al-Faruqi who, during his lifetime, had made profound and invaluable contributions not only to Islamic scholarship but to learning as a whole. Indeed, I was most privileged to have been given the opportunity of knowing him personally, as a leading scholar of his generation and as a friend. To be sure, he exacted uncompromising intellectual standards and lived by a strict regiment of academic discipline. But, at the same time, he was never lost in mere philosophical abstractions. He was acutely conscious of the realities of the time and the condition of the contemporary ummah. In this regard, he exemplified the conjunction between theoretical learning, ilm, and the righteous deeds, amal salih. He devoted the best years of his life, before his death under tragic circumstances, to the upliftment of the ummah, in inspiring and guiding its youth especially.]]> http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/obituary/the-ismail-faruqi-award-presentation-ceremony/feed/ 0 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/obituary/islam-on-its-own-terms-the-contribution-of-ismail-al-faruqi/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/obituary/islam-on-its-own-terms-the-contribution-of-ismail-al-faruqi/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:16:28 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=146 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/obituary/islam-on-its-own-terms-the-contribution-of-ismail-al-faruqi/feed/ 0 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-and-the-problem-of-israel-the-romantic-relapse-of-europe/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-and-the-problem-of-israel-the-romantic-relapse-of-europe/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 17:43:16 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=131 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-and-the-problem-of-israel-the-romantic-relapse-of-europe/feed/ 0 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/islam-and-the-tehran-hostages/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/islam-and-the-tehran-hostages/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 09:17:26 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=92 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/islam-and-the-tehran-hostages/feed/ 0 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-and-the-problem-of-israel-apercu-of-jewish-history-in-the-christian-west-prior-to-the-emancipation/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-and-the-problem-of-israel-apercu-of-jewish-history-in-the-christian-west-prior-to-the-emancipation/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:57:45 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=67 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/books/islam-and-the-problem-of-israel-apercu-of-jewish-history-in-the-christian-west-prior-to-the-emancipation/feed/ 0 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/towards-an-islamic-theory-of-meta-religion/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/towards-an-islamic-theory-of-meta-religion/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:43:11 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/?p=43 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/towards-an-islamic-theory-of-meta-religion/feed/ 1 http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/why-islam/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/why-islam/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:25:08 +0000 admin http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/2007/04/23/why-islam/ http://www.ismailfaruqi.com/articles/why-islam/feed/ 3