“KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND THE CIVILIZATION OF ISLAM: Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas”



KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND THE CIVILIZATION OF ISLAM: 
Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Edited by Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud and Muhammad Zainiy Uthman
Published by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)


Title of the essays included in the festschrift:
1. AL-ATTAS: A REAL REFORMER AND THINKER
Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
2. RE-ISLAMISING THE WORLD
Ali Alawi
3. SHIFTS OF LANGUAGE AND TURNS IN WORLDVIEW:
Naquib Al-Attas’ Perspective
Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi
4. REFLECTIONS ON AL-ATTAS’ CONCEPTION OF THE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY:
Implications for Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and Philosophy of Education in South Africa
Yusef Waghid
5. THE NEGOTIATION OF MODERNITY THROUGH TRADITION IN CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE:
The Neo-Ghazalian, Attasian Perpsective
M. Afifi al-Akiti and H. A. Hellyer
6. ILLUMINATIVE KNOWLEDGE IN MAWLANA RUMI
Bilal Kuspinar
7. KANT AND GHAZALI ON HUMAN NATURE:
A Comparative Philosophy of Man
Alparslan Acikgenc

8. DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH THE CORRIDORS OF FAITH AND MIND:
Some thoughts concerning the philosophy of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas and its contribution for proper understanding ofConditio Humana
Fred Muhic
9. PROLEGOMENA TO WEST AND EAST:
Kant and Ibn Khaldun
Ernest Wolf-Gazo
10. CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATION IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
Marietta Stepanyants
11. EVOLUTION:
The Epitome of the Emerging Contemporaneous Global Civilization
Saban Teoman Durah
12. SCIENCE IN ADAB LITERATURE
Paul Lettinck
13. SCIENCE CONNECTING SCHOLARS AND CULTURES IN KHWARAZM:
The Case of Khwarazmshah Ma’mum Ibn Ma’mun
Hans Daiber
14. SOME REMARKS ON THE WAKF INSTITUTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Mehmet Ipsirli
15. ISLAMIC CAPITALISM AND THE WEST
Murat Cizakca
16. AL-ATTAS’ CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS:
A Reflection on the Contemporary Meaning of Development
Amer Al-Roubaie
17. THAI-IRANIAN RELATIONS IN HISTORY:
A Glance at the Persian Community in the Ayutthaya Kingdom
M. Ismail Marcinkowski
18. THE NAME AND THE NAMED:
On the Extent of Hamzah Fansuri’s Renown in the Malay Indonesian World (Notes and Materials)
Vladimir Braginsky

19. SUFISM AND ARCHITECTURAL ART IN THE MALAY WORLD
Md. Salleh Yaapar
20. CONCERNING ONE NAME MENTIONED IN THE TUHFAT AL-NAFIS:
Two Interesting Revelations
Tatiana Denisova
21. THE CORRECT DATE OF THE TERENGANU INSCRIPTION:
Reconfirmed using Astronomical Computer Programs
Muhammad Zainiy Uthman and Azlan Hashim