The Impact of Deconstruction on Islamic Thought: A Critical Analysis of Mohammed Arkoun’s Work

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dc.contributor.authorAbida Khan
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-13T09:17:12Z
dc.date.available2014-02-13T09:17:12Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionAdvisor: Amjad Waheeden_US
dc.description.abstractIdeologies are directly albeit not always perceptibly related to methodological and epistemological themes. Social psychology also reveals that knowledge depends upon the policy of rejection or incorporation of various philosophies. In the journey of human thought dawned the age of reason with the Era of Enlightenment. Gradually universal values and scientific method gained supremacy. And then all the grand narratives stood redundant and rejected giving rise to the need to re-search, re-analyze, and re-think every work done thus far with the aim to de-construct the now-discarded. This research studies the greatly admired post structural theory of deconstruction and its proponents in both the Western and Muslim civilizations to have a better understanding of it as well as evaluating its impact on the contemporary Muslim thought. The rationale of the study is a critical appraisal of the theoretical concepts in the Muslim world in response or reaction to the current epistemological influences from the West. This exploration led to the conclusion that the scholars of the Islamic world missed the point by going a bit too far as the Holy Quran and collections of authentic Ahadith explicitly state what Muslims should reject or incorporate. The remedy comprises updating the conventional way of thinking and interpreting things, acquiring the ability to think the unthinkable and the previously unthought, honest hard word, incessant striving for excellence, as well as discarding getting overwhelmed by whatever gains ‘currency' in the largely impulsive Western thought.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/1001
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Management and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectDeconstructionen_US
dc.subjectIslamic Thoughten_US
dc.titleThe Impact of Deconstruction on Islamic Thought: A Critical Analysis of Mohammed Arkoun’s Worken_US
dc.titleThe impact of deconstruction on islamic thought: a critical analysis of mohammed arkoun's worken_us
dc.typeThesisen_US
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