Category: 🕌 Islamic Studies & Thought

Islamic Studies & Thought focuses on the intellectual tradition of Islam, Shariah, and its contributions to science and civilization. It links Acehnese and Indonesian Islamic scholarship to wider global conversations.

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Fricative Knowledge Paradigm: Beyond Interdisciplinarity Toward Spiritual Epistemology

Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad

Modern interdisciplinarity promises integration, yet silently reproduces fragmentation by remaining trapped within an immanent epistemic frame. This essay proposes the Paradigm of the Fricativization of Knowledge as a radical alternative—an epistemological process in which knowledge is deliberately narrowed, strained, and spiritually conditioned to regain density, meaning, and orientation toward al-Ḥaqq. Fricativization rejects smooth synthesis and insists on productive resistance between reason and revelation, method and intention, discipline and transcendence. Knowledge is no longer treated as neutral information or technical mastery, but as amānah, sulūk, and mi‘rāj—a transformative journey that demands ethical formation, spiritual preparedness, and epistemic accountability. This is not an integration of fields, but a reconstitution of knowing itself.

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Ali Asghar Engineer: Islam, Ethics, and the Courage to Disturb Power

Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad

Ali Asghar Engineer was not a celebrity intellectual, yet his ideas reshaped discussions on Progressive Islam, ethics, gender justice, and religious authority across the Global South and beyond. This article explores his moral framework—ethics before tradition, justice before authority, and conscience before conformity—revealing how his work challenged patriarchy, communal violence, and the misuse of religion in public life. Engineer’s legacy remains unfinished, precisely because the questions he raised continue to disturb religious comfort and demand ethical accountability.