Islam and Civilizational Dialogue: The Quest for a Truly Universal Civilization is centered around the theme of Islam’s past, present, and future dialogues with other cultures and civilizations. Islam has made a positive and major contribution to the development of the idea of universal human civilization and to the enrichment of global human culture through its constructive civilizational engagement with the rest of the world. The author argues that, on the basis of its past achievements, Islam has both the necessary sense of civilizational mission and sufficient spiritual and intellectual means to conduct a worldwide conversation not only with its sister religions in the Abrahamic family, namely Judaism and Christianity, but also with Far Eastern religions—Confucianism, Buddhism, and even Shintoism—in the pursuit of a truly universal civilization and a global ethics based on shared spiritual and moral and ethical values.
Islam and Civilizational Dialogue: The Quest for a Truly Universal Civilization
OSMAN BAKAR is currently Rector of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and holds the Al-Ghazali Chair at ISTAC-IIUM.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: ISLAM’S ENCOUNTER WITH OTHER CIVILIZATIONS
1. Islam’s Destiny: A Civilizational Bridge Between East and West
2. Muslim-Buddhist Relations in Asia
3. An Islamic Understanding of Confucius and the Analects: Implications for Muslim-Confucian Relations
4. Toward A Better Appreciation of Islam in the West
PART II: ISLAM, ASIAN VALUES AND ASIAN RENAISSANCE
5. Asian Values or Universal Values Championed by Asia? Implications for East-West Understanding
6. The Relevance of Muhammad Iqbal’s Idea of Islamic Renaissance to Contemporary Debate on Asian Renaissance
PART III: CIVILIZATIONAL DIALOGUE IN VARIOUS DOMAINS OF HUMAN LIFE AND THOUGHT: ISLAM’S ROLE AND CONTRIBUTIONS
7. Civilizational Dialogue in the Quest for A New Universal Science
8. Civilizational Dialogue in Philosophy of Medicine
9. The Question of Values in Science Education: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
10. Civilizational Dialogue on the Role of Cosmology in the Cultivation of the Arts
11. ASEAN Dialogue On the Artist and Social Commitment in the Light of Tradition
| Weight | 0.236 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21.6 × 13.9 × 0.9 cm |
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| Edition | Reprint |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | CENDEKIA, Universiti Malaya Centre for Civilisational Dialogue |
| Year Published | 1997 |
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