1968/10/01 by John B. Taylor · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Islamic Studies and History #Education and Islamic Studies #Historical and Linguistic Studies
paper · doi:10.1017/s0034412500003395
openalex publication_date 1968/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
To a student audience seduced by the claims of a ‘secular Christianity’, Professor Gordon Rupp once urged the combined loyalties of ‘worldmanship’ and ‘other-worldmanship’. The Muslim world shows little friendship to secularist ideologies which explicitly reject the eschatological dimension, but Muslims are increasingly involved in secularising processes; many of these are ‘Islamised’, if they are compatible with Islamic social or political ideals, and the stigma of bid‘ah , innovation, is thereby avoided. A Lebanese author, Muhammad Darwazah, in his Dustūr al-Qur’ ānī , Cairo 1956, advocated a ‘Qur'ānic Constitution’ for the modern world since the Qur'ān’s world-view is both in-worldly and other-worldly: ‘Islam is a religion of the world ( dīn al-dunyā ), of government, society, morals and order, to the same extent as it is a religion of faith and belief and the next world ( dīn al-ākhirah ).’