RT Article
T1 The discourse of power and knowledge in the social sciences and study of Muslim society
JF Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
VO 23
IS 3
SP 381
OP 400
A1 Yusof, Danial
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1562906372
AB This article examines parallels between contemporary Western and Muslim thought. It proposes that there is congruence in Western and Muslim political thought on issues of soft foundationalism, negative theology, provisional truth claims and religious democracy to offset hegemonic tendencies. In the social sciences, specifically political science, the neutralization of ideology is also supported in response to concern about ideological encroachments into the discipline. In addition, the article discusses the residual issue of positivism and knowledge as social construction, i.e. the social sciences themselves as ideological with regard to the agnostic position of their methodology. This has implications for the study of religion, in this case Islam, and the field's problematic nomenclature, such as Islamism and, now, post-Islamism. This is explored through a discussion of the Arab Spring and Malaysian politics. The article concludes that similar concerns on the relationship between power and knowledge in contemporary Western and Muslim thought are beneficial to the social sciences and their study of the Muslim world's transformation as a social and political phenomenon.
K1 Foundationalism
K1 Hegemony
K1 Islamic human sciences
K1 Political Thought
K1 post-Islamism
K1 power and knowledge
K1 Social Sciences
DO 10.1080/09596410.2012.684858