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Thu. Jul. 17, 2003
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Living Shari`ah > Contemporary Issues > Islamic Themes
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Towards A New Islamic Discourse
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Islam is portrayed sometimes as if it were a monolithic or uni-dimensional entity. Islam is undoubtedly the faith of transcendental monotheism , the belief in Allah (the one and only God), who transcends both man and nature. But monotheism does not lead to monism (the metaphysical doctrine that existence is a whole and one); on the contrary, it leads to pluralism and diversity. For from a strictly Islamic point of view, except for God, everything else exists in variety. Therefore, there is not one single Islamic discourse, but rather a variety of discourses that manifest various endeavors , or ijtihad, (personal reasoning) of the Muslim mind, within the boundaries of time and place, to understand the world and to interpret the Qur'an.
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Dr. Abdel-Wahab M. Elmessiri is a Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Ain Shams University, Cairo-Egypt.
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