Hassan's View Of Islamization

Mohd Kamal Hassan was born in Malaysia in the year of 1942. With his character, personality and works, Hassan has shown to the Muslims how they should react in order to change people’s perception of Islam especially in the modern context. The foci of his writings are mainly on philosophy, religion, social issues and education.

In his writings, Kamal Hassan highlights that the secular and modernistic paradigm of development that lacks spiritual and ethical moorings is partly responsible for the 2009 global economic and financial crisis. Muslim policy-makers, intellectuals and scholars are duty-bound to promote the Tawheedic paradigm of holistic development and holistic knowledge. Closely related to the paradigm of development is the issue

Firstly, Islamization is used in the sense of process of conversion to Islam while Islamicization generally means a process of conforming to Islamic teachings or norms or being incorporated with the principles of Islam. He argues that knowledge is not to undergo religious conversion but to integrate and fit the modern knowledge with Islamic worldview.

Semantically, Islamization is derived from the word Islam, whereas the term Islamicization came from the adjective Islamic. The adjective Islamic has at least three different levels of interpretation. Firstly, something that is related directly or indirectly with Islam and Muslim like Islamic television channel. Secondly, something that is in agreement with Islamic principles and not contradicts with Islamic values like Islamic attire. Lastly, something that is conforms to the teaching of Islam and composes upon the doctrines, commandments or beliefs of Islam, like for instance, the Islamic

This can be seen through Nasr’s regards that religious and divine truth is the highest form of knowledge, al-Faruqi’s Islamization of knowledge that integrate the transmitted and intellectual knowledge that he institutionalized through the establishment of Institute of International Islamic Thought (IIIT), Sardar’s stands on infusing Islamic values with the modern science and Kamal Hassan’s advocacy in the new term of Islamicization and