Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas ( Arabic محمد نقيب العطاس, DMG Muḥammad Naqīb al-ʿAṭṭās ; * September 5, 1931 in Bogor , Java , Dutch East Indies ) is a contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia. In his research he deals with different aspects of the Islamic world of thought and culture, in particular with Sufism , cosmology , metaphysics , philosophy as well as with Malay language and literature.

biography

After graduating from secondary school in his hometown in 1951, he spent several years studying in England from 1952 to 1955, first at Eaton Hall in Chester , then at the Sandhurst Military Academy . He traveled extensively, visiting Spain and North Africa, among others, where he was impressed by the Islamic heritage, and continued his studies at the Malaya University in Singapore from 1957 to 1959. After a three-year study with the help of a Canadian scholarship at the Islamic Studies Institute of McGill University in Montreal , he continued his studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London with Arthur John Arberry and Martin Lings , where he wrote his doctoral thesis in 1962 as a two-volume work on the Mysticism completed by Hamza Fansuri . In 1965 he returned to Malaysia, where he was dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1968 to 1970 and then transferred to the newly founded National University of Malaysia , where, as dean of the Philosophy Faculty, he strongly advocated the use of Malay at the university level began.

In 1987 he founded the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) in Kuala Lumpur and became its first director. He is one of the Senior Fellows of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought), Jordan .

The Muslim scholars trained by al-Attas in the "original" ISTAC include Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud ( ATMA - UKM ), Zainiy Uthman ( IIUM ), Alparslan Açıkgenç ( Fatih University ), Mustafa Cerić ( Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina ), Zaidi Ismail ( IKIM ), Sani Badron ( IKIM ), Wan Azhar ( IKIM ), Farid Shahran (former Vice President of ABIM , IIUM ), Wan Suhaimi Wan Abdullah ( UM ), Azizan Sabjan ( USM ), Adi Setia ( IIUM ), Ustaz Asham Ahmad ( IKIM ) and Ustaz Nik Roskiman ( IKIM ).

The social scientist Syed Hussein Alatas (1928–2007) was his brother.

Works

• Rangkaian Ruba'iyat (Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka), 1959.
• Some Aspects of Sufism as Understood and Practised among the Malays (Singapore: Malaysian Sociological Research Institute).
• Raniri and the Wujudiyyah of the 17th Century Acheh (Kuala Lumpur: Monographs of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society), 1963.
• The Mysticism of Hamzah Fansuri (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press), 1970.
• The Correct Date of the Terengganu Inscription (Kuala Lumpur: Museum Department), 1970.
• Islam dalam Sejarah dan Kebudayaan Melayu (Kuala Lumpur: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), 1972.
• Comments on the Re-Examination of Al-Raniri's Hujjatu'l Siddiq: A Refutation (Kuala Lumpur: Museum Department), 1975.
• Islam and Secularism (Kuala Lumpur: Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM), 1978; reprint, Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), 1993).
• (Ed.) Aims and objectives of Islamic education: World conference on Muslim education (1st, Mecca, 1977). Sevenoaks, Kent: Hodder and Soughton, 1979.
• The Concept of Education in Islam (Kuala Lumpur: Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM); reprint, Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)), 1980.
• A Commentary on the Hujjat al-Siddiq of Nur al-Din al-Raniri: Being an Exposition the Salient Points of Distinction between the Positions of the Theologians, the Philosophers, the Sufis and the Pseudo-Sufis on the Ontological Relationship between God and the World and Related Questions (Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Ministry of Culture), 1986.
• The Oldest Known Malay Manuscript: A 16th Century Malay Translation of the `Aqa'id of al-Nasafi (Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya), 1988.
• Islam and the Philosophy of Science (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)), 1989 (German translation by Christoph Marcinkowski as Islam and the basics of science , Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 2001).
• The Nature of Man and the Psychology of the Human Soul (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)), 1990.
• On Quiddity and Essence (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)), 1990.
• The Intuition of Existence (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)), 1990.
• Islam: The Concept of Religion and the Foundation of Ethics and Morality (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)), 1992.
• The Meaning and Experience of Happiness in Islam , 1993 (German translation by Christoph Marcinkowski as The Meaning and Experience of Happiness in Islam , Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1998)
• The Degrees of Existence , 1994.
• Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam: An Exposition of the Fundamental Elements of the Worldview of Islam (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)), 1995.
• Risalah untuk Hardly Muslim (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)), 2001.
• Tinjauan Ringkas Peri Ilmu dan Pandangan Alam (Penang, Malaysia: Universiti Sains Malaysia), 2007.
• Historical Fact and Fiction (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: UTM Press), 2011.
• On Justice and the Nature of Man (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: IBFIM), 2015.

See also

• International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

literature

• Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud: The educational philosophy and practice of Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas: an exposition of the original concept of islamization. Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 1998

Web links

• Hamza Yusuf with Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas on YouTube

References and footnotes

1. ^ Aalalbayt.org: the Fellows
2. ↑ Prof. Al-Attas' view on the polemical usage of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims (rausyanfikir.com, January 4, 2010) - accessed on May 20, 2017
3. ↑ Book sheds new light on history . Archived from the original on September 10, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 4, 2017.