The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society

This article examines parallels between contemporary Western and Muslim thought. It proposes that there is congruence in Western and Muslim political thought on issues of soft foundationalism, negative theology, provisional truth claims and religious democracy to offset hegemonic tendencies. In the...

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Main Author:	Mohd. Yusof, Danial
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2012
Subjects:	BP1 Islam
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spelling	iium-265082012-11-09T04:21:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/26508/ The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society Mohd. Yusof, Danial BP1 Islam This article examines parallels between contemporary Western and Muslim thought. It proposes that there is congruence in Western and Muslim political thought on issues of soft foundationalism, negative theology, provisional truth claims and religious democracy to offset hegemonic tendencies. In the social sciences, specifically political science, the neutralization of ideology is also supported in response to concern about ideological encroachments into the discipline. In addition, the article discusses the residual issue of positivism and knowledge as social construction, i.e. the social sciences themselves as ideological with regard to the agnostic position of their methodology. This has implications for the study of religion, in this case Islam, and the field's problematic nomenclature, such as Islamism and, now, post-Islamism. This is explored through a discussion of the Arab Spring and Malaysian politics. The article concludes that similar concerns on the relationship between power and knowledge in contemporary Western and Muslim thought are beneficial to the social sciences and their study of the Muslim world's transformation as a social and political phenomenon. Taylor & Francis 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/26508/1/The_discourse_of_power_and_knowledge.pdf Mohd. Yusof, Danial (2012) The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 23 (3). pp. 381-400. ISSN 0959-6410 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09596410.2012.684858#tabModule 10.1080/09596410.2012.684858
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description	This article examines parallels between contemporary Western and Muslim thought. It proposes that there is congruence in Western and Muslim political thought on issues of soft foundationalism, negative theology, provisional truth claims and religious democracy to offset hegemonic tendencies. In the social sciences, specifically political science, the neutralization of ideology is also supported in response to concern about ideological encroachments into the discipline. In addition, the article discusses the residual issue of positivism and knowledge as social construction, i.e. the social sciences themselves as ideological with regard to the agnostic position of their methodology. This has implications for the study of religion, in this case Islam, and the field's problematic nomenclature, such as Islamism and, now, post-Islamism. This is explored through a discussion of the Arab Spring and Malaysian politics. The article concludes that similar concerns on the relationship between power and knowledge in contemporary Western and Muslim thought are beneficial to the social sciences and their study of the Muslim world's transformation as a social and political phenomenon.
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title	The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society
title_short	The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society
title_full	The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society
title_fullStr	The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society
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The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society

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