Islamic Thought Review
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023): December 2023

Muhammad Abduh's Criticism of Gabriel Hanotaux's Thought in the Book Islam Bainal Ilmi wal Madaniyah

Rahman, Wahyudi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Dec 2023

Abstract

This article examines Muhammad Abduh's criticism of Gabriel Hanotaux's thoughts, as stated in his book Islam Bainal Ilmi Wal Madaniyah. The type of research used is literature, with a figure study approach. The results showed that Abduh disagreed with Hanotaux in 6 cases. First, regarding progress, only the European Christian Aryan ethnic group possessed it. According to Abduh, the advancement of the rights of all ethnicities and the attribution of Aryan ethnicity to Christianity is not appropriate. Second, Hanotaux wrongly considers Islam a fatalist religion and Christianity a religion that has free will in its destiny. Third, regarding the social reality of Muslims, Abduh has the same views as Hanotaux and is self-critical of the situation of Muslims. Fourth, on the theme of colonial politics, Abduh criticized Hanotaux, who argued that this was purely out of religious interests. Fifth, in the theme of secularization, Hanotaux mixes state political affairs with religion to completely separate them, while Abduh believes that the two can't be separated; all that can be done is to divide tasks and areas of authority between politics and religion.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ITR

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Subject

Religion

Description

Focus Islamic Thought Review (ITR) publishes scholarly articles addressing issues specific to the discipline of Islamic thought and broader issues from an Islamic theological and philosophical perspective. Scope The ITR intends to provide an international forum for exchanging ideas between scholars ...