The Intellectual Horizons of Civilizational Islam (Islam Hadhari)

The Intellectual Horizons of Civilizational Islam (Islam Hadhari)

Third Revised Edition 2017

Author: Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Publisher: International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia

ISBN: 9789673231416

Page: 117pp

Weight: 0.100kg

Price: RM30.00

It is a great pleasure for me to contribute a preface to the new edition of this valuable book by Professor Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali, which explains the Islamic significances and important features of the concept and initiative of “Islam Hadhari”, or Civilizational Islam. I would like to spell out a few words to highlights the reasons why the civilizational aspects of Islam matters in the eyes of the Japanese today, at the first quarter of the 21st century. It goes without saying that the revival of Islamic civilizational and the Islamic Ummah matter very much for the Muslims. It is also my conviction that they should matter for the entire human race, since human civilization is at a crossroads between a path towards its own degeneration and self-destruction through never-ending material expansions and a path towards its reform and renewal through the revitalization of civilizational assets and wisdoms of mankind as a whole.

Being extremely delighted with this significant step, I asked Professor Kamli to republish his valuabl;e work on Islam Hadhari. I felt a strong need for such a publication, because the younger generations may not share our awareness an d knowledge on Islam Hadhari and it is our duty to inform them of its significance at thi9s juncture of human and Islamic history. I hope this book will serve such a task, and not only for established scholars and leaders, but also that many from the younger generations will join the Hadhari Global Network.

Yasushi Kosugi, LL.D.

Professor, Graduated School of Asian and African Area Studies

Director,Hadhari Center for Islamic Civilizational Studies,

Kyoto University, Japan