Abstract
The present study is an argument to de-provincialize
Philosophy to embrace diverse streams of human thought as legitimate. The
attitude to deny a place to a system of thought as Philosophy extends to
almost everything that is non-Western. Our concern, however, is not so
widespread in this study as it is limited to Muslim thought only as an instant
of illegitimacy owing to its non-Western germination. To begin with, the
focus will be to deny all such efforts together with the identification of root
causes behind this approach. Moreover, various generally repeated
allegations in favor of the thesis that ‘Muslim thought is not a philosophy at
all’ are outlined. Appropriateness of these allegations is repudiated by
tracing out the similar seeds in the mainstream Western Philosophical
tradition. The two traditions are compared on such issues as the place of
reason, faith, intuition, pre-suppositions of religious nature alongside the
extremist tendencies of the clergy to deny any space to the revolutionary
ideas against the status-quo. The effort is to make manifest the obvious
biasness in declaring Muslim thought as irrational. Insight will be offered to
the similar conceptual tendencies that are slandered as well as libeled while
discussing Muslim Philosophy but are never reproached when they appear
in the texts of Western Philosophers.
Dr Ali Raza Tahir, Hafiz Muhammad Hammad Mushtaq. (2018) MUSLIM THOUGHT, OCCIDENTALISM AND RATIONALITY, Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 38, Issue 1.
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