Justice and Resistance: A Tribute to Imam Ali

On this day, the 21st of Ramadhan, the day of Imam Ali’s martyrdom, I would like to pay him a tribute through Dr. Ali Shariati‘s words. In his speech, On the Plight of the Oppressed People, Shariati talks to the graves of those slaves who did not have any control over their lives and who [...]

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THE WORLD IS THE BOOK OF GOD ALMIGHTY

I hope the readers were able to follow the ruminations in the previous six posts. The discussion started with the problem of ascertaining knowledge and culminated at outlining the Realistic Islamic Worldview. Below I want to look at how this Realistic Islamic Worldview is presented by the Quran and how it may be applied to [...]

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From Our Philosophy (V): The Realistic Islamic Worldview

The question of worldview is important because it shapes our understanding of self, our interaction with the world, its Creator, and other fellow creations. Our understanding of the world relates to the subject matter of natural and social sciences as well as philosophy and religion. So, for example, in the field of natural sciences, we [...]

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From Our Philosophy (IV): The Logic of Science

Students of natural and social sciences should find the passage quoted from Our Philosophy in this post especially insightful. Let me start off with a quick summary of what has been discussed so far. We have discussed Descartes’ particular version of Rationalism, which is based on his Cartesian Method of doubt, also Hume’s Empiricism, and [...]

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From Our Philosophy (III): To Exist is to Know – Really?

How Can We Be Sure Of What We Know? You may have seen a very absorbing presentation by the popular Turkish scholar, Harun Yahya, entitled “Secret Beyond Matter” (see here). And you might have noticed a similarity between his argument and the one presented by the idealist philosopher George Berkeley (A.D. 1685-1753), who argued that, [...]

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