Do you need to bomb human beings in order to "mediate western education through Islamic schorlaship"?
Kwasi
Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng,
Journalist & Communications Consultant
Accra
President,
Ghana Association of Writers
PAWA House, Accra
Kwasi
Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng,
Journalist & Communications Consultant
Accra
President,
Ghana Association of Writers
PAWA House, Accra
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Major misperceptions of Boko Haramrectified (1)
> From: omosunsly@yahoo.com
> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 14:05:01 +0000
>
> Thanks for sharing. I really need to have this. A lot of my reading has made me think that it is everything associated with western education that was rejected. Lead me to create satirical poetry aimed at mocking the yesufication of haram aims. Thanks once again
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> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 13:37:35
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Major misperceptions of Boko Haram
> rectified (1)
>
>
> A major popular misconception about Boko Haram is that they believe
> that Western book learning/ education is Haram / forbidden by
> Islam.This is a distortion and oversimplification of their position,
> perhaps as it has filtered through to their less educated followers
> and this misconception has been used as propaganda, by which to
> stigmatise and even ridicule and sneer at the group as being
> backward.
>
> But as Toni Johnson points out,
>
> http://www.cfr.org/africa/boko-haram/p25739
>
> "Many Nigerians believe Yusuf rejected all things Western, but Lubeck
> argues that Yusuf, who embraced technology, believed Western education
> should be "mediated through Islamic scholarship," such as rejecting
> the theory of evolution and Western-style banking."
>
> "Mediated through Islamic scholarship" is nothing new, there is
> currently a serious movement among genuine Islamic scholars such as
> the noted Iranian doyen of Islamic studies, Professor Seyyid Hossein
> Nasr, working on "the Islamisation of Knowledge". This is surely what
> is meant by "Western education should be "mediated through Islamic
> scholarship," , that we do not see all things ( including science,
> history and philosophy, through the prism/ lens of Western or Eastern
> scholarship.....
>
> http://www.google.se/search?q=Seyyid+Hossein+Nasr&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
>
> http://www.google.se/search?q=%E2%80%9Cthe+Islamisation+of+Knowledge%E2%80%9D&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
>
> http://www.google.se/search?q=Seyyid+Hossein+Nasr%3Aon+the+Islamization+of+knowledge&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
>
> It is a variation of another larger endeavour , "the indeginization
> of knowledge " which would even incorporate translation and
> adaptation of knowledge into terms that are relevant to those who want
> to imbibe or make use of it....
>
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> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Major misperceptions of Boko Haramrectified (1)
> From: omosunsly@yahoo.com
> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 14:05:01 +0000
>
> Thanks for sharing. I really need to have this. A lot of my reading has made me think that it is everything associated with western education that was rejected. Lead me to create satirical poetry aimed at mocking the yesufication of haram aims. Thanks once again
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com>
> Sender: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 13:37:35
> To: USA Africa Dialogue Series<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Reply-To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Major misperceptions of Boko Haram
> rectified (1)
>
>
> A major popular misconception about Boko Haram is that they believe
> that Western book learning/ education is Haram / forbidden by
> Islam.This is a distortion and oversimplification of their position,
> perhaps as it has filtered through to their less educated followers
> and this misconception has been used as propaganda, by which to
> stigmatise and even ridicule and sneer at the group as being
> backward.
>
> But as Toni Johnson points out,
>
> http://www.cfr.org/africa/boko-haram/p25739
>
> "Many Nigerians believe Yusuf rejected all things Western, but Lubeck
> argues that Yusuf, who embraced technology, believed Western education
> should be "mediated through Islamic scholarship," such as rejecting
> the theory of evolution and Western-style banking."
>
> "Mediated through Islamic scholarship" is nothing new, there is
> currently a serious movement among genuine Islamic scholars such as
> the noted Iranian doyen of Islamic studies, Professor Seyyid Hossein
> Nasr, working on "the Islamisation of Knowledge". This is surely what
> is meant by "Western education should be "mediated through Islamic
> scholarship," , that we do not see all things ( including science,
> history and philosophy, through the prism/ lens of Western or Eastern
> scholarship.....
>
> http://www.google.se/search?q=Seyyid+Hossein+Nasr&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
>
> http://www.google.se/search?q=%E2%80%9Cthe+Islamisation+of+Knowledge%E2%80%9D&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
>
> http://www.google.se/search?q=Seyyid+Hossein+Nasr%3Aon+the+Islamization+of+knowledge&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
>
> It is a variation of another larger endeavour , "the indeginization
> of knowledge " which would even incorporate translation and
> adaptation of knowledge into terms that are relevant to those who want
> to imbibe or make use of it....
>
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