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Paradigms in Political Science Revisited: Critical Options and Muslim Perspectives Mona Abul-Fadl A CON VOCATION It is time for Muslim political scientists to come together to debate the state of the art in their field and to define the grounds and terms for its pro- spective evolution or transformation in the light of alternative perspectives.
‘ Conscientious scholars and intellectuals have staked their claims to autonomy on the grounds of a critical disaffection with their field} Dr. Mona Abul—Fadl directs the Research Project on Western Thought at the International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, Virginia, and is the Chairperson of the Political Science Discipline Council of the Association of Muslim Scientists.
It is in this context that Muslim political scientists are expected to come together science one reading took its standpoint from the Islamic legacy (‘Abdulflarnid Abfisulaymrinz pp.
scholars addressing this perspective too have notably come a long way since then in their confident, competent, and knowledgeable articulations of the Islamic viewpoint.
This calls for evolving a discursive tradition drawing, in the first instance, on the Muslim historical experience and political context and illuminated by a developing intellectual Islamic sensibility.
Its activation, however, depends on how far enterprising scholars, Muslims and others, are able to articulate and relate this perspective to the times and how effective they can be in engaging the existing paradigms in an evolving discourse.
In the last unit, the discussion will be even more selective as it addresses aspects of an Islamic perspective, by way of example, to demonstrate the thrust and possibilities of evolving an alternative paradigm.