My PhD students would always energise me.We discussed Hellenistic philosophers and compared them with early Muslim scholars (my candu for the day) and moved on to Said Nursi to Gullen to Mohamed Morsi (Egyptian President). Candu day! :)
We concluded that IOK was not widespread in educating Muslims (and non-Muslims) to be aware of the greater picture/happening in the Muslim world and beyond.We agreed new terms to define many things had to be created if we wanted to breakaway from the consumer/slave mentality (many of the terms/labels were created in the West e.g. the word modern or modernity..if we added Islamic modernity then you would be guilty of assuming there were a time/period/space in which Islam was not modern, etc etc..if you say you are a modern Muslim, then you assume there are non-modern Muslims some where..terok, kan? I raised this before with my American political scientist friend but he said this is just to facilitate the intellectual categorisation...still...it's intellectual cos' we endorse it as such).
Lepas kelas, kami fikir jalan mcmana nak tolong kawan kita dari Palestin ni.Dia takda scholarship.Takda gaji.Gaji semua dah kena sekat.Sourgrapes betul Israel ni.Dah kalah tu, buatlah cara kalah, kan? :))
We concluded that IOK was not widespread in educating Muslims (and non-Muslims) to be aware of the greater picture/happening in the Muslim world and beyond.We agreed new terms to define many things had to be created if we wanted to breakaway from the consumer/slave mentality (many of the terms/labels were created in the West e.g. the word modern or modernity..if we added Islamic modernity then you would be guilty of assuming there were a time/period/space in which Islam was not modern, etc etc..if you say you are a modern Muslim, then you assume there are non-modern Muslims some where..terok, kan? I raised this before with my American political scientist friend but he said this is just to facilitate the intellectual categorisation...still...it's intellectual cos' we endorse it as such).
Lepas kelas, kami fikir jalan mcmana nak tolong kawan kita dari Palestin ni.Dia takda scholarship.Takda gaji.Gaji semua dah kena sekat.Sourgrapes betul Israel ni.Dah kalah tu, buatlah cara kalah, kan? :))
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