مجلة المنهل
Volume 10, Numéro 2, Pages 53-64
2024-12-31

The Pantheistic Reading Of Islam: Conflating The Normative Islamic With The Historical Muslimanic

Authors : Ahmed Amir .

Abstract

This article addresses with the blurred boundaries between the normative Islam as a reference of value and Muslims in history, who are relative beings in place and time interact with the normative source of Islam, however, this confusion is not only occasionally observed in Western scholarship, but it is also discernable in traditional Muslimanic literature. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the criteria by which to categorize the actions of Muslims in history can be categorized Islamic. So defining normative Islam and its source is an essential point of departure in order to avoid any epistemological obfuscation, namely, the pantheistic approach that equates transcendental Islam, which represents the absolute “What Ought”, and relative history. Therefore, it is recommend to use the term Muslimanic as solution to disengage such terminological and cognitive perplexity

Keywords

Pantheism ; Islamic ; Muslimanic ; Normative ; Transcendence