新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Anouar Majid offers perspective on the Muslim world鈥檚 need for intellectual freedom
新香港六合彩资料 Vice President for Global Affairs Anouar Majid, Ph.D., lent his perspective to a recent MENAFM article arguing that Muslim countries must free themselves from the shackles of orthodoxy and allow their intellectuals to freely express themselves before they can modernize and achieve stability.
The article, titled 鈥淭he Muslim World鈥檚 Colossal Neglect,鈥 appeared in the June 10, 2018 edition of this leading source for World and Middle East news, drawing from the perspectives of many of the Muslim World鈥檚 most prominent scholars.
Because of the intellectual repression endemic to the 58 Muslim countries, the article says there has been a steady flight of Islam鈥檚 best and brightest thinkers to the West. This 鈥渆scape to the West鈥 leaves Muslim countries bereft of the leadership they need to advance culturally, economically, and socially.
The article includes a quote from Majid鈥檚 2007 book A Call for Heresy. Describing Majid鈥檚 work as 鈥渁 quite illuminating analysis of the need for heresy in Islam,鈥 the article concludes with Majid鈥檚 assertion that: 鈥淭he 鈥榸anadiqa鈥 of Islam, as well as Islam鈥檚 persecuted or neglected philosophers, are also Islam鈥檚 only hope to break free, finally, from the tyranny of Sunni orthodoxy and carry on the work that had long been cast in Islam鈥檚 golden trash heap of history. For modernity, in its Islamic sense, is no more than embracing the right critical method and ensuring a society that doesn鈥檛 punish difference or proscribe intellectual pluralism.鈥
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