Title: PHILOSOPHY OF ISMA‘IL RAJI AL-FARUQI: LOOKING FOR THE NEOMODERNISM
Abstract:The article deals with the religio-philosophical conception of Ismail Raji al-Faruqi (1921–1986) — Palestinian-American researcher, one of the founders of Islamic Studies in the USA. Emphasis in this ...The article deals with the religio-philosophical conception of Ismail Raji al-Faruqi (1921–1986) — Palestinian-American researcher, one of the founders of Islamic Studies in the USA. Emphasis in this article was made on his views on the essence of Islam as “meta-religion”. Author analyses the evolution of his ideas and his views on the specificity of Islam, the Tawhid, the problem of free will and predestination, the mission of Muslim, the Islamic Word-Order etc. Author concludes that it is difficult to associate al-Faruqi with particular direction of Islamic thought and that his views in general can be characterized as a synthesis of Salafism and Neomodernism.Read More