Why Publish with Islam Today Journal?
The modern world is built upon the ideals of the Western Enlightenment. Within this worldview, reason and secularism dictate not only the political order of society but also the framework for the categorization and production of knowledge. As a result, religion has been excluded from both governing structures and institutions of learning and research. Faith, being philosophically immaterial, is not subject to the scientific method within this paradigm. Consequently, it remains a topic of discussion primarily within religious seminaries and private enterprises rather than in state institutions and public systems. In contrast, the Islamic civilization that preceded modernity integrated governance and knowledge with faith. The foundational value system deliberately and consciously linked faith (īmān) with action (ʿamal). This does not imply that Muslim scholars and thinkers were solely preoccupied with theorizing about God and the afterlife. In fact, classical Muslim religious scholars often distanced themselves from abstract theological debates. Instead, they focused on faith as it manifests in the human body and the natural world, treating faith as an observable and even measurable force through the actions undertaken by individuals and societies. Unlike the modern worldview, which requires materiality as a precondition for existence, the Islamic perspective acknowledges the incorporeal and its tangible effects. Human beings are influenced by faith just as much as they are by material conditions, generating outcomes that rely on deeply interconnected systems beyond the material world. The strict division between the incorporeal and the empirical has not withstood the test of time. Increasingly, modern scientific […]